CVE-2014-9470

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the loadForm function in Frontend/Modules/Search/Actions/Index.php in Fork CMS before 3.8.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the q_widget parameter to en/search.

Affected products

forkcms/forkcms: before 3.8.4 — fixed in 3.8.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: forkcms/forkcms 3.8.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/38
http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-3.8.4-released
http://www.itas.vn/news/itas-team-found-out-a-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-fork-cms-70.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72017
https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/4a7814762adf4f56f932d95146c7e4126d872114
https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/issues/1018s
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/38
http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-3.8.4-released
http://www.itas.vn/news/itas-team-found-out-a-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-fork-cms-70.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72017
https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/4a7814762adf4f56f932d95146c7e4126d872114
https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/issues/1018s

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