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Published 2012-09-09 · Updated 2012-09-10 · CVE-2011-4942

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Geeklog versions prior to 1.7.1sr1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the subgroup or conf group parameters in the admin/configuration.php file. This might require a user-assisted attack or a bypass of a CSRF protection mechanism.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.7.1sr1, update to version 1.7.1sr1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the admin/configuration.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the subgroup and conf group parameters in the affected file until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4942

Affected Products

Geeklog

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4942 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42775 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/13 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/5 · Note
• http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bgeeklog1.7.1%5D_cross_site_scripting · Note
• http://geeklog.net/article.php/geeklog-1.7.1sr1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/18/8 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/70245 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4942 · Note