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CVE-2011-4340

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the profile parameter to extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php, as demonstrated via requests to (a) the default URI, (b) about/, or (c) drafts/; or (2) the filter parameter in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php, as demonstrated via requests to (d) symphony/publish/comments or (e) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Symphony-Cms Symphony Cms: 2.2.3

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/106493/symphonycms-sqlxss.txt
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Nov/8
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46663
• http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/
• http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/9
• http://www.osvdb.org/76882
• http://www.osvdb.org/76883
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71106
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/106493/symphonycms-sqlxss.txt
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Nov/8
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46663

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