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Status published
Medium
CVE-2012-6561
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in engine/lib/views.php in Elgg before 1.8.5...
Vulnerability Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in engine/lib/views.php in Elgg before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the view parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.7.12, 1.7.13, 1.7.14, 1.7.15, 1.7.16, 1.7.17, 1.7.18, 1.8.0.1, 1.8.1, 1.8.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 23rd, 2013
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.