Cross-site scripting in GeniXCMS - CVE-2015-5066

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Cross-site scripting in GeniXCMS - CVE-2015-5066

Published: June 24, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40708
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5066
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: MetalGenix
Affected software:
GeniXCMS

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the MetalGenix GeniXCMS 0.0.3 when processing the (1) content or (2) title field in an add action in the posts page to index.php or the (3) q parameter in the posts page to index.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-5066

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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