CVE-2011-4942

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in admin/configuration.php in Geeklog before 1.7.1sr1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) subgroup or (2) conf_group parameters. NOTE: this vulnerability might require a user-assisted attack or a bypass of a CSRF protection mechanism.

Affected products

Geeklog: through 1.7.1; 1.3, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9 (+7)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/42775
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/geeklog-1.7.1sr1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/5
http://www.osvdb.org/70245
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bgeeklog1.7.1%5D_cross_site_scripting
http://secunia.com/advisories/42775
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/geeklog-1.7.1sr1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/5

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