CVE-2011-4923 (GCVE-0-2011-4923)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-02-18 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:23
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in View.pm in BackupPC 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the num parameter in a view action to index.cgi, related to the log file viewer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3361.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/27/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1249-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50406 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/46615 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2011-10-27 00:00
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