CVE-2011-4616

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML-Template-Pro module before 0.9507 for Perl allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via template parameters, related to improper handling of > (greater than) and < (less than) characters.

Affected products

Igor Vlasenko Html-Template-Pro: through 0.9506; 0.01, 0.17, 0.26, 0.34, 0.35, 0.36 (+55)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652587
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9507/Changes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089603.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089888.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089889.html
http://metacpan.org/diff/release/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9505/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9507
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/19/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/47184
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51117
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652587
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/VIY/HTML-Template-Pro-0.9507/Changes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089603.html

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