CVE-2012-5098

high

Published 2012-09-23 · 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

8.5

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Php-X-Links, possibly 1.0, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) id parameter to rate.php, (2) cid parameter to view.php, or (3) t parameter to pop.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-18298 webapps php verified

H4ckCity Security Team · 2012-01-02

PHP-X-Links Script - SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
j_waite	php-x-links	`0.1`
j_waite	php-x-links	`1.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.