CVE-2012-1782

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Published 2012-03-19 · 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 questions/ask in OSQA 3b allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) url bar or (2) picture bar.

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-36886 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Ucha Gobejishvili · 2012-02-27

OSQA's CMS - Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52184/info

OSQA's CMS is prone to multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Attacker-supplied HTML or JavaScript code could run in the context of the affected site, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and control how the site is rendered to the user; other attacks are also possible.

OSQA 3b is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

http://www.example.com/questions/ask/ press url bar & put xss code <img src="<img src=search"/onerror=alert("xss")//">
http://www.example.com/questions/ask/ press picture bar & put xss code <img src="<img src=search"/onerror=alert("xss")//">

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
osqa	osqa	`3b`

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.