CVE-2011-5185

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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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in video_comments.php in Online Subtitles Workshop before 2.0 rev 131 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the comment parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18035 webapps php text · 2 KB

M.Jock3R · 2011-10-26

Online Subtitles Workshop - Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

===================================================================================
 Online Subtitles Workshop XSS vulnerabilities
===================================================================================
# Exploit Title: Online Subtitles Workshop XSS vulnerabilities
# Author: M.Jock3R (www.the-code.tk)
# Script Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinesubtitles/files/
# Category:: webapps
# Tested on: windows XP Sp2 FR
===================================================================================

Vuln file: video_comments.php

Vuln code:
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$all_comments = read_video_comments($video_id);

//print_r($all_comments);

$video_comments = "";

for ($i = 0; $i <= count($all_comments)-1; $i++) {

    $video_comments = $video_comments . "
<table style='width:100%'>
<tr>
<td style='width:100%'>
".get_user_name($all_comments[$i]['id'])."
</td>
<td>

".date('h:i:s A m-d-Y ', $all_comments[$i]['time'])." 
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan='7'>
".$all_comments[$i]['message']." <== Here you can inject any HTML or Javascript code :)
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
";

Exploit:
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First,Choose any video.
Go to comments, and write for example : <marquee><font color=red size=15>M.jock3r</font>/marquee>
-Or you can steal the cookies of any one browse the video page :)

===================================================================================
Greets To :
the C0de team / sa-hacker.com

Email : madrido.jocker@gmail.com
  
THANKS TO ALL ALGERIANS HACK3RS
===================================================================================

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
realmatrix	online_subtitles_workshop	`{"endIncluding":"2.0"}`

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.