PT-2012-3957 · Serendipity · Serendipity

Stefan Schurtz · Published 2012-08-13 · Updated 2012-08-14 · CVE-2012-2331

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 Serendipity versions prior to 1.6.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the serendipity[textarea] parameter in the serendipity admin image selector.php file. This issue might be related to cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.1, update to version 1.6.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the serendipity admin image selector.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the serendipity[textarea] parameter in the affected file until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2331

Affected Products

Serendipity

References · 12

• 🔥 https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/commit/264bf55719baacc069ff9d3cc35f0c349cde11e3 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/18884 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://koramis.com/advisories/2012/KORAMIS-ADV2012-001.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://rul3z.de/index.php?/214-KORAMISADV2012-001-Serendipity-1.6-Backend-Cross-Site-Scripting-and-SQL-Injection-vulnerability.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/53418 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2331 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2331 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/08/6 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0037.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/09/2 · Note
• http://blog.s9y.org/archives/240-Serendipity-1.6.1-released.html · Note