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FKIE_CVE-2012-5537

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-12-03 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:46

Severity

Summary

The Simplenews Scheduler module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.4 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with the "send scheduled newsletters" permission to inject arbitrary PHP code into the scheduling form, which is later executed by cron.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://drupal.org/node/1789274	Patch
secalert@redhat.com	http://drupal.org/node/1789284	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://drupal.org/node/1789274	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://drupal.org/node/1789284	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.0
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.0
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.0
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.0
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.1
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.2
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.3
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	6.x-2.x
drupal	drupal	-

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CVE-2012-5537 (GCVE-0-2012-5537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:51

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://drupal.org/node/1789284	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://drupal.org/node/1789274	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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