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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1873

Original release date:04/13/2007
Last revised:11/13/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mephisto 0.7.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the q parameter to the search script.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070412 Re: Cross site scripting in mephisto 0.7.3
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070411 Cross site scripting in mephisto 0.7.3
External Source: FRSIRT
Name: ADV-2007-1373
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 34911
External Source: MISC
Name: http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2007-1873-mephisto.txt
External Source: XF
Name: mephisto-search-xss(33620)
External Source: BID
Name: 23141
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24870

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Configuration 1
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* cpe:/a:mephisto:mephisto:0.7.3
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