CVE-2012-0873

medium
Published 2012-02-23 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 Boonex Dolphin before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) explain parameter to explanation.php or the (2) photos_only, (3) online_only, or (4) mode parameters to viewFriends.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-36854 webapps php verified text ยท 1 KB
Aung Khant ยท 2012-02-21

Dolphin 7.0.x - 'explanation.php?explain' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52088/info
 
Dolphin 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 may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
 
Dolphin 7.0.7 and prior versions are vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/dolph/explanation.php?explain=%27%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28/xss/%29%3C/script%3E
EDB-36853 webapps php verified text ยท 1 KB
Aung Khant ยท 2012-02-21

Dolphin 7.0.x - 'viewFriends.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52088/info

Dolphin 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 may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Dolphin 7.0.7 and prior versions are vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/dolph/viewFriends.php?iUser=1&page=1&per_page=32&sort=activity&photos_only='"><script>alert(/xss/)</script>
http://www.example.com/dolph/viewFriends.php?iUser=1&page=1&per_page=32&sort=activity&online_only='"><script>alert(/xss/)</script>
http://www.example.com/dolph/viewFriends.php?iUser=1&page=1&sort=activity&mode='"><script>alert(/xss/)</script> 

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
boonexdolphin{"endIncluding":"7.0.7"}
boonexdolphin5.1
boonexdolphin5.2
boonexdolphin6.1.2
boonexdolphin7.0.0
boonexdolphin7.0.1
boonexdolphin7.0.2
boonexdolphin7.0.3
boonexdolphin7.0.4
boonexdolphin7.0.5
boonexdolphin7.0.6

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.