CVE-2015-5456

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: 2015-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the form method in modules/formclass.php in PivotX before 2.3.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO, related to the "PHP_SELF" variable and form actions.

Affected products

Pivotx: through 2.3.10

References

http://blog.pivotx.net/archive/2015/06/21/pivotx-2311-released
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132474/PivotX-2.3.10-Session-Fixation-XSS-Code-Execution.html
http://software-talk.org/blog/2015/06/session-fixation-xss-code-execution-vulnerability-pivotx/
http://sourceforge.net/p/pivot-weblog/code/4457/tree//branches/2.3.x/pivotx/modules/formclass.php?diff=51a4cb5e34309d75c0d1612a:4456
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535860/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75577
http://blog.pivotx.net/archive/2015/06/21/pivotx-2311-released
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132474/PivotX-2.3.10-Session-Fixation-XSS-Code-Execution.html
http://software-talk.org/blog/2015/06/session-fixation-xss-code-execution-vulnerability-pivotx/
http://sourceforge.net/p/pivot-weblog/code/4457/tree//branches/2.3.x/pivotx/modules/formclass.php?diff=51a4cb5e34309d75c0d1612a:4456
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535860/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75577

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