VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1976

medium
Published 2011-08-10 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Report Viewer Control in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Report Viewer 2005 SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a parameter in a data source, aka "Report Viewer Controls XSS Vulnerability."

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-36020 remote windows verified
Adam Bixby · 2011-08-09

Microsoft Visual Studio Report Viewer 2005 Control - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftreport_viewer2005
windows microsoftvisual_studio2005

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.