CVE-2011-5267

medium
Published 2013-11-05 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 spell-check-savedicts.php in the SpellChecker module in Xinha, as used in WikiWig 5.01 and possibly other products, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) to_p_dict or (2) to_r_list parameter. NOTE: this issue might be related to the htmlarea plugin and CVE-2013-5670.

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-16988 webapps php
AutoSec Tools ยท 2011-03-16

WikiWig 5.01 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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EDB-35436 webapps php verified
John Leitch ยท 2011-03-10

Xinha 0.96 - 'spell-check-savedicts.php' Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wikiwig_projectwikiwig5.0.1

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.