VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1838

medium
Published 2011-05-20 · 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
5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in TemplateLogin.pm in TWiki before 5.0.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the origurl parameter to a (1) view script or (2) login script.

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-35761 webapps php verified
Mesut Timur · 2011-05-18

TWiki 5.0.1 - 'origurl' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
twikitwiki{"endIncluding":"5.0.1"}
twikitwiki4.0.0
twikitwiki4.0.1
twikitwiki4.0.2
twikitwiki4.0.3
twikitwiki4.0.4
twikitwiki4.0.5
twikitwiki4.1.0
twikitwiki4.1.1
twikitwiki4.1.2
twikitwiki4.2.0
twikitwiki4.2.1
twikitwiki4.2.2
twikitwiki4.2.3
twikitwiki4.2.4
twikitwiki4.3.0
twikitwiki4.3.1
twikitwiki4.3.2
twikitwiki4.5.0
twikitwiki5.0.0

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.