CVE-2013-5670

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spell-check-savedicts.php in the htmlarea SpellChecker module, as used in Serendipity before 1.7.3 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the to_r_list parameter.

Affected products

s9y Serendipity: through 1.7.2; 0.3, 0.4, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8, 0.8.1 (+31)

References

http://blog.s9y.org/archives/250-Serendipity-1.7.3-released.html
http://www.opensyscom.fr/Actualites/serendipity-xss-vulnerability.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/3
http://www.osvdb.org/87395
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/250-Serendipity-1.7.3-released.html
http://www.opensyscom.fr/Actualites/serendipity-xss-vulnerability.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/3
http://www.osvdb.org/87395

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