A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Plume CMS up to 1.2.4 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument c_author with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Plume CMS 1.2.4 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the u_email parameter (aka Authors Email field) to manager/users.php, (2) the u_realname parameter (aka Authors Name field) to manager/users.php, or (3) the c_author parameter (aka Author field) in an ADD A COMMENT section.

The weakness was released 04/11/2012 by Ivano Binetti (Website). The advisory is shared at webapp-security.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-2156 since 04/04/2012. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (18699).

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• Content Management System

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• Plume

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• CMS

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• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.1.3
• 1.2
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4

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