A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Contenido CMS 4.9.11 (Content Management System). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the file main.php of the component com_adagency. The manipulation of the argument filter/action/year/subject/idtpl with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Backend). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity.

The weakness was published 10/10/2016 by Benjamin Kunz Mejri as VL-ID 1928 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vulnerability-lab.com. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

A public exploit has been developed by Benjamin Kunz Mejri and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at vulnerability-lab.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:main.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

The best possible mitigation is suggested to be Workaround.

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• 4.9.11

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