CVE-2013-2559

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Symphony CMS before 2.3.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the sort parameter to system/authors/. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

Affected products

Getsymphony Symphony: through 2.3.1; 2.0, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7 (+3)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0018.html
http://www.getsymphony.com/download/releases/version/2.3.2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58843
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83227
https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/commit/6c8aa4e9c810994f7632837487426867ce50f468
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23148
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-04/0018.html
http://www.getsymphony.com/download/releases/version/2.3.2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58843
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83227
https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/commit/6c8aa4e9c810994f7632837487426867ce50f468
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23148

Get alerted when CVE-2013-2559 or the next vulnerability affects your stack