CVE-2020-10461 — The way comments in article

The way comments in article.php (vulnerable function in include/functions-article.php) are handled in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to execute Stored (Blind) XSS (injecting arbitrary web script or HTML) in admin/manage-comments.php, via the GET parameter

01What is this vulnerability?

The way comments in article.php (vulnerable function in include/functions-article.php) are handled in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to execute Stored (Blind) XSS (injecting arbitrary web script or HTML) in admin/manage-comments.php, via the GET parameter cmt.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-12T13:05:16.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T10:58:40.821Z

09References

• antoniocannito.it — http://antoniocannito.it/?p=137#bxss2
• antoniocannito.it — https://antoniocannito.it/phpkb1#blind-cross-site-scripting-2-cve-2020-10461