CVE-2014-2236

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Askbot before 0.7.49 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the (1) tag or (2) user search forms.

Affected products

askbot: through 0.7.48; 0.7.40, 0.7.41, 0.7.42, 0.7.43, 0.7.44, 0.7.45 (+2)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/57163
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65885
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070852
https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/876e3662ff6b78cc6241338c15e3a0cb49edf4e2#diff-b693b4c02739be4b3231bece15b0eb87
https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/a676a86b6b7a5737d4da4f59f71e037406f88d29
http://secunia.com/advisories/57163
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65885
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070852
https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/876e3662ff6b78cc6241338c15e3a0cb49edf4e2#diff-b693b4c02739be4b3231bece15b0eb87
https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/a676a86b6b7a5737d4da4f59f71e037406f88d29

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