CVE-2011-4273

medium
Published 2011-11-03 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 GoAhead Webserver 2.18 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the group parameter to goform/AddGroup, related to addgroup.asp; (2) the url parameter to goform/AddAccessLimit, related to addlimit.asp; or the (3) user (aka User ID) or (4) group parameter to goform/AddUser, related to adduser.asp.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-36217 remote windows verified
Silent Dream ยท 2011-10-10

GoAhead Web Server 2.18 - 'addgroup.asp?group' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-36218 remote windows verified
Silent Dream ยท 2011-10-10

GoAhead Web Server 2.18 - 'addlimit.asp?url' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-36219 remote windows verified
Silent Dream ยท 2011-10-10

GoAhead Web Server 2.18 - 'adduser.asp' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
goaheadgoahead_webserver2.1.8

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.