CVE-2011-4958

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the process function in SSViewer.php in SilverStripe before 2.3.13 and 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY_STRING to template placeholders, as demonstrated by a request to (1) admin/reports/, (2) admin/comments/, (3) admin/, (4) admin/show/, (5) admin/assets/, and (6) admin/security/.

Affected products

Silverstripe: through 2.3.12; 2.3.0, 2.3.0-rc1, 2.3.0-rc2, 2.3.0-rc3, 2.3.1, 2.3.1-rc1 (+17)

References

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6
http://osvdb.org/76258
http://secunia.com/advisories/46390
http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-024.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520050/100/0/threaded
https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/16c3235
https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/52a895f
https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/bdd6391
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6
http://osvdb.org/76258

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