CVE-2011-5177

medium

Published 2012-09-20 · 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 admin/controller.php in eSyndiCat Pro 2.3.05 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id parameter to the admins (2) blocks, (3) articles, or (4) suggest-category; or (5) sort parameter to the search page.

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-36362 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

d3v1l · 2011-11-26

eSyndiCat Pro 2.3.5 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50822/info

eSyndiCat Pro is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

eSyndiCat Pro 2.3.05 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

http://www.example.com/demo/admin/controller.php?file=admins&do=edit&id=XSS
http://www.example.com/demo/admin/controller.php?file=blocks&do=edit&id=XSS
http://www.example.com/demo/admin/controller.php?plugin=articles&do=edit&id=XSS
http://www.example.com/demo/admin/controller.php?file=suggest-category&id=XSS
http://www.example.com/demo/admin/controller.php?file=search&_dc=1322239437555&action=get&start=0&limit=10&sort=XSS

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
esyndicat	esyndicat_pro	`2.3.05`

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.