CVE-2011-3642

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Flowplayer Flash 3.2.7 through 3.2.16, as used in the News system (news) extension for TYPO3 and Mahara, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the plugin configuration directive in a reference to an external domain plugin.

Affected products

Flowplayer Flash: from 3.2.7 through 3.2.16

References

http://appsec.ws/Presentations/FlashFlooding.pdf
http://secunia.com/advisories/52074
http://secunia.com/advisories/54206
http://secunia.com/advisories/58854
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-extensions/typo3-ext-sa-2014-009
http://web.appsec.ws/FlashExploitDatabase.php
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1103748
https://code.google.com/p/flowplayer-core/issues/detail?id=441
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5237
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48651
http://appsec.ws/Presentations/FlashFlooding.pdf
http://secunia.com/advisories/52074

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