CVE-2013-2643

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.8.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) xss parameter in an allow action to rss.php, (2) msg parameter to end-user/errdoc.php, (3) h parameter to end-user/ftp_redirect.php, or (4) threat parameter to the Blocked component.

Affected products

Sophos Web Appliance: all versions
Sophos Web Appliance Firmware: through 3.7.8.1

References

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118969.aspx
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20130403-0_Sophos_Web_Protection_Appliance_Multiple_Vulnerabilities.txt
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118969.aspx
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20130403-0_Sophos_Web_Protection_Appliance_Multiple_Vulnerabilities.txt

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