Elgg Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2012-6561 - Vulnerability Database

Elgg

Elgg Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2012-6561

Medium

Reference: CVE-2012-6561

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6561

Title: Elgg Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability

Overview:

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.