CVE-2011-4923

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in View.pm in BackupPC 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the num parameter in a view action to index.cgi, related to the log file viewer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3361.

Affected products

Backuppc: 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/46615
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1249-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/27/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50406
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71030
http://secunia.com/advisories/46615
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1249-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/27/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/15
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50406
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71030

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