CVE-2013-3565

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTTP Interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) command parameter to requests/vlm_cmd.xml, (2) dir parameter to requests/browse.xml, or (3) URI in a request, which is returned in an error message through share/lua/intf/http.lua.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1
VideoLAN VLC: before 2.0.7 — fixed in 2.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VideoLAN VLC 2.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf02b8dd211d5a52aa301a9a2ff4e73ed8195881
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00001.html
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-007.txt
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf02b8dd211d5a52aa301a9a2ff4e73ed8195881
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00001.html
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-007.txt

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