CVE-2012-2331

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in serendipity/serendipity_admin_image_selector.php in Serendipity before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the serendipity[textarea] parameter. NOTE: this issue might be resultant from cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

Affected products

s9y Serendipity: through 1.6; 0.3, 0.4, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8, 0.8.1 (+28)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0037.html
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/240-Serendipity-1.6.1-released.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49009
http://www.koramis.com/advisories/2012/KORAMIS-ADV2012-001.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/08/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/09/2
http://www.rul3z.de/index.php?/214-KORAMISADV2012-001-Serendipity-1.6-Backend-Cross-Site-Scripting-and-SQL-Injection-vulnerability.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53418
https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/commit/264bf55719baacc069ff9d3cc35f0c349cde11e3
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0037.html
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/240-Serendipity-1.6.1-released.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49009

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