Cross-site scripting in Zenphoto - CVE-2012-0995

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Cross-site scripting in Zenphoto - CVE-2012-0995

Published: February 21, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44256
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:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0995
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Zenphoto
Affected software:
Zenphoto

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.

An input validation error exists in ZENphoto 1.4.2 when processing the (1) msg parameter in an external action to zp-core/admin.php, (2) PATH_INTO to an unspecified URL, as demonstrated using /1/, (3) PATH_INFO to zp-core/admin.php, or (4) album parameter to zp-core/admin-edit.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-2012-0995

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

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