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CVE-2012-5164

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-09-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Fork CMS before 3.2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the term parameter to (1) autocomplete.php, (2) search/ajax/autosuggest.php, (3) livesuggest.php, or (4) save.php in frontend/modules/search/ajax.

Affected products

• forkcms/forkcms: through 3.2.6; 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.3.1 (+35)

References

• http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-cms-3-2-7-released
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78957
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/03e8f5b53f193a87116b3875eec39769d5c07114
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/641e27bf1e9a7e320d6856399a7c274934bb351e
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/pull/247
• http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-cms-3-2-7-released
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78957
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/03e8f5b53f193a87116b3875eec39769d5c07114
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/641e27bf1e9a7e320d6856399a7c274934bb351e
• https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/pull/247

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