CVE-2013-5099
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in article.php in Anchor CMS 0.9.1, when comments are enabled, allows remote attackers to inject…
- 2.6LowCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in article.php in Anchor CMS 0.9.1, when comments are enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Name field. NOTE: some sources have reported that comments.php is vulnerable, but certain functions from comments.php are used by article.php.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Anchor CMS 0.9.1 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26958webapps, phppublished 18 Jul 2013Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 26958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 61376 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 26958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- anchorcms-article-comments-xss(85888) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4940 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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