CVE-2012-6554

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

functions/html_to_text.php in the Chat module before 1.5.2 for activeCollab allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via the message[message_text] parameter to chat/add_messag, which is not properly handled when executing the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Affected products

A51Dev Activecollab Chat Module: 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.2 (+4)

References

http://osvdb.org/81966
http://secunia.com/advisories/49246
http://www.activecollab.com/downloads/category/4/package/62/releases
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18898
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53624
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75741
http://osvdb.org/81966
http://secunia.com/advisories/49246
http://www.activecollab.com/downloads/category/4/package/62/releases
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18898
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53624
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75741

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