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CVE-2015-1040

Published: Jan 15, 2015Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-79
3.5LOW
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.6%
Top 26.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
5 Known
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative backend in BEdita 3.4.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) lrealname field in the editProfile form to index.php/home/profile; the (2) data[title] or (3) data[description] field in the addQuickItem form to index.php; the (4) "note text" field in the saveNote form to index.php/areas; or the (5) titleBEObject or (6) tagsArea field in the updateForm form to index.php/documents/view.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:SC:NI:PA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:SAuthentication
Single
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

bedita
oss-project
beditaOn-prem
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
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Exploitability

5 exploit sources identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129865/CMS-BEdita-3.4.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
packetstormsecurity.com
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/16
seclists.org
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/115
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