CVE-2012-2436

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an arbitrary parameter in a move or (2) minimize action to admin/admin_index.php; (3) the karma_username parameter to module.php in the karma module; (4) q_1_low, (5) q_1_high, (6) q_2_low, or (7) q_2_high parameter in a configure action to module.php in the captcha module; or (8) the edit parameter to module.php in the admin_language module.

Affected products

Pligg Cms: through 1.2.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc1, 1.0.0-rc2, 1.0.0-rc3, 1.0.0-rc4, 1.0.0-rc5 (+16)

References

http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg/trunk/modules/admin_language/admin_language_main.php?r1=2442&r2=2441&pathrev=2442
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2440
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2441
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2452
http://secunia.com/advisories/45431
http://secunia.com/advisories/49257
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-18/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53625
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53662
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75764
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75834

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