CVE-2010-4524

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/mhtxthtml.pl in MHonArc 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed start tag and end tag for a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by <scr<body>ipt> and </scr<body>ipt> sequences.

Affected products

Mhonarc: 2.6.16

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607693
http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.php
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/22/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/22/5
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?32013
http://secunia.com/advisories/42694
http://www.mail-archive.com/mhonarc-dev%40mhonarc.org/msg01296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45528
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3344
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0067

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