CVE-2011-4958 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2011-4958?

CVE-2011-4958 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Silverstripe Silverstripe, published on 8 Apr 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the process function in SSViewer.php in SilverStripe before 2.3.13 and 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY_STRING to template placeholders, as demonstrated by a request to (1) admin/reports/, (2) admin/comments/, (3) admin/, (4) admin/show/, (5) admin/assets/, and (6) admin/security/.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-4958?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Silverstripe Silverstripe.

How do I fix CVE-2011-4958?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-4958 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2011-4958 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2011-4958 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2019-5715 Silverstripe Framework SQLi Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-12437 Silverstripe CSRF Protection Bypass via GraphQL High 8.8
• CVE-2020-6164 Silverstripe CMS information disclosure High 7.5

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hvm5-xrxv-6g4q.