CVE-2011-4961

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 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: none known
Published: 2012-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.12 and 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows remote authenticated users with the EDIT_PERMISSIONS permission to gain administrator privileges via a TreeMultiselectField that includes admin groups when adding a user to the selected groups.

Affected products

Silverstripe: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5 (+12)

References

http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12
http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/de1f070
http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12
http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/de1f070

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