CVE-2012-5702

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in dotProject before 2.1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) callback parameter in a color_selector action, (2) field parameter in a date_format action, or (3) company_name parameter in an addedit action to index.php. NOTE: the date parameter vector is already covered by CVE-2008-3886.

Affected products

Dotproject: through 2.1.6

References

http://osvdb.org/87627
http://secunia.com/advisories/51332
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/files/dotproject/dotProject%20Version%202.1.7/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56624
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80216
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23124
http://osvdb.org/87627
http://secunia.com/advisories/51332
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/files/dotproject/dotProject%20Version%202.1.7/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56624
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80216
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23124

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