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CVE-2013-5670
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spell-check-savedicts.php in the htmlarea SpellChecker module, as used in Serendipity before…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spell-check-savedicts.php in the htmlarea SpellChecker module, as used in Serendipity before 1.7.3 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the to_r_list parameter.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- http://blog.s9y.org/archives/250-Serendipity-1.7.3-released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.opensyscom.fr/Actualites/serendipity-xss-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130901 Re: CVE request: serendipity before 1.7.3 XSS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 87395 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130901 CVE request: serendipity before 1.7.3 XSS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2013-5509 (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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