PT-2012-3174 · Six Apart · Movable Type

Jonathan Claudius · Published 2012-03-03 · Updated 2018-01-18 · CVE-2012-1262

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 Movable Type versions prior to 4.38 Movable Type versions 5.0x prior to 5.07 Movable Type versions 5.1x prior to 5.13

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the dbuser parameter in the cgi-bin/mt/mt-wizard.cgi file when the product is not fully installed.

Recommendations For Movable Type versions prior to 4.38, update to version 4.38 or later. For Movable Type versions 5.0x prior to 5.07, update to version 5.07 or later. For Movable Type versions 5.1x prior to 5.13, update to version 5.13 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1262

DSA-2423-1

Affected Products

Movable Type

References · 14

• 🔥 https://trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2012-003.txt · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2423 · Vendor Advisory
• http://movabletype.org/2012/02/movable_type_513_507_and_438_security_updates.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1262 · Security Note
• http://movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/513.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN49836527/index.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73411 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73480 · Note
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000016 · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Feb/407 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026738 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/79470 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/110203/Movable-Type-Publishing-Platform-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/52138 · Note