CVE-2011-1524

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management login GUI page in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username field, as demonstrated by injecting an IFRAME element into the event log, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0545.

Affected products

Symantec Liveupdate Administrator: through 2.2.2.9; 2.1.0, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.2.2

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8166
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242
http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46856
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8166
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242
http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt

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