CVE-2012-2156

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Plume CMS 1.2.4 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the u_email parameter (aka Authors Email field) to manager/users.php, (2) the u_realname parameter (aka Authors Name field) to manager/users.php, or (3) the c_author parameter (aka Author field) in an ADD A COMMENT section.

Affected products

Plume-Cms Plume Cms: through 1.2.4; 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.3 (+4)

References

http://osvdb.org/80960
http://osvdb.org/80961
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18699
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52890
http://www.webapp-security.com/2012/04/plumecms
http://www.webapp-security.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PlumeCMS-1.2.4-Multiple-Permanent-XSS.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74614
http://osvdb.org/80960
http://osvdb.org/80961
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18699
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52890
http://www.webapp-security.com/2012/04/plumecms

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