PT-2012-5695 · Silverstripe · Silverstripe

Henri Salo · Published 2012-09-17 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-4968

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 SilverStripe versions 2.3.x through 2.3.12 SilverStripe versions 2.4.x through 2.4.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted strings to various methods in a template. The affected methods include AbsoluteLinks, BigSummary, ContextSummary, EscapeXML, FirstParagraph, FirstSentence, Initial, LimitCharacters, LimitSentences, LimitWordCount, LimitWordCountXML, Lower, LowerCase, NoHTML, Summary, Upper, UpperCase, or URL.

Recommendations For SilverStripe versions 2.3.x through 2.3.12, update to version 2.3.13 or later. For SilverStripe versions 2.4.x through 2.4.6, update to version 2.4.7 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the vulnerable methods in templates until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4968

GHSA-V358-RVXR-WFFX

Affected Products

Silverstripe

References · 10

• 🔥 https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/0085876 · Exploit
• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4968 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v358-rvxr-wffx · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/commit/0085876495f0f8dda5dc58cb24a8f2220e7baf1e · Note
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/commit/15e9e059e5948ccf8f5a36dfcb435ad26ecec334 · Note
• https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework · Note
• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.13 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3 · Note