CVE-2011-4090 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Serendipity before 1.6 has an XSS issue in the karma plugin which may allow privilege escalation.

Published: 2019-11-26

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 3.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

serendipity

serendipity

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`before 1.6`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:s9y:serendipity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2011-4041	Serendipity before 1.6 has an XSS issue in the karma plugin which may allow privilege escalation.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03399.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4090
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/176
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4090

History

No history.

Subscriptions

S9y Serendipity

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-11-26T04:09:48.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:53:32.642Z

Reserved: 2011-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-4090

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-26T05:15:12.977

Modified: 2026-06-16T23:34:24.370

Link: CVE-2011-4090

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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