CVE-2010-0971

low

Published 2010-03-16 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.1

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ATutor 1.6.4 allow remote authenticated users, with Instructor privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Question and (2) Choice fields in tools/polls/add.php, the (3) Type and (4) Title fields in tools/groups/create_manual.php, and the (5) Title field in assignments/add_assignment.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-11685 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

ITSecTeam · 2010-03-11

ATutor 1.6.4 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Topic : ATutor 1.6.4
Bugs Type : Cross Site Scripting (all of them)
Credit : ItSecTeam
Remote : Yes
Status : Bug

# mail : Bug@ItSecTeam.com
# Dork : "ATutor 1.6.4"
#Special Tnx : am!rkh@n, Amin Shokohi(Pejvak), C0M0D0, 0xd41684c654, r3dmove And All It Security Team Members
#Website : WwW.ITSecTeam.com

########################## Exploit #############################
the bugs can be explited as below:

#1: After logging in as an instructor go to manage section and add a poll and inject your XSS code as a questaion or choices.
#2: After logging in as an instructor go to manage section and Create a new Group and inject your XSS code as title or group type.
#3: After logging in as an instructor go to manage section and Add an Assignment with XSS code as title.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
atutor	atutor	`1.6.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.