CVE-2011-5081

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: yes
Published: 2012-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in RestoreFile.pm in BackupPC 3.1.0, 3.2.1, and possibly other earlier versions allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the share parameter in a RestoreFile action to index.cgi.

Affected products

Backuppc: 3.1.0, 3.2.1

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Apr/266
http://secunia.com/advisories/44385
http://www.osvdb.org/72055
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67170
https://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/multiple_xss_vulnerabilities_in_backuppc.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Apr/266
http://secunia.com/advisories/44385
http://www.osvdb.org/72055
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67170
https://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/multiple_xss_vulnerabilities_in_backuppc.html

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