CVE-2014-9272 (GCVE-0-2014-9272)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-09 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The string_insert_href function in MantisBT 1.2.0a1 through 1.2.x before 1.2.18 does not properly validate the URL protocol, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the javascript:// protocol.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/05378e00 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17297 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/62101 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/867 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/902 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
Date Public
2014-12-01 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.