SB2014011602 - Cross-site scripting in GetSimple CMS

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SB2014011602 - Cross-site scripting in GetSimple CMS

Published: January 16, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014011602
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6621)

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

An input validation error exists in GetSimple CMS 3.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.3, and earlier when processing the (1) Email Address or (2) Custom Permalink Structure fields in admin/settings.php; (3) path parameter to admin/upload.php; (4) err parameter to admin/theme.php; (5) error parameter to admin/pages.php; or (6) success or (7) err parameter to admin/index.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.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

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