CVE-2015-2289
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.5
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in templates/2k11/admin/entries.tpl in Serendipity before 2.0.1 allows remote authenticated editors to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the serendipity[cat][name] parameter to serendipity_admin.php, when creating a new category.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s9y | serendipity | {"endIncluding":"2.0"} | |
References
- http://blog.s9y.org/archives/263-Serendipity-2.0.1-released.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130838/Serendipity-CMS-2.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534871/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031961
- https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/commit/a30886d3bb9d8eeb6698948864c77caaa982435d
- http://blog.s9y.org/archives/263-Serendipity-2.0.1-released.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130838/Serendipity-CMS-2.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534871/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031961
- https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/commit/a30886d3bb9d8eeb6698948864c77caaa982435d
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.