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CVE-2020-36653: GENI Portal error-text.php cross site scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A vulnerability was found in GENI Portal. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file portal/www/portal/error-text.php. The manipulation of the argument error leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The patch is identified as c2356cc41260551073bfaa3a94d1ab074f554938. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-218474 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

• GENI Portal: before 2020-01-29 — fixed in 2020-01-29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GENI Portal 2020-01-29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-portal/commit/c2356cc41260551073bfaa3a94d1ab074f554938
• https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-portal/pull/1822
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218474
• https://vuldb.com/?id.218474
• https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-portal/commit/c2356cc41260551073bfaa3a94d1ab074f554938
• https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-portal/pull/1822
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218474
• https://vuldb.com/?id.218474

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