Elefant CMS Blog Post Persistent cross site scriting

Also known as GHSA-4453-g295-24mh

Published 4 y ago 2022-06-20 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

3.5

v3.1 · CNA

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.5%

percentile 45%

Public exploits

none known

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Elefant CMS 1.3.12-RC. This affects an unknown part of the component Blog Post Handler. The manipulation leads to basic cross site scripting (Persistent). It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 1.3.13 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago 2025-04-14

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.52% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
CNA	3.1	3.5	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`
CNA	3.1	3.5	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`
NVD	3.1	5.4	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`
NVD	2.0	3.5	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N`
GitHub	3.1	5.4	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
packagist	`elefant/cms`	<1.3.13	1.3.13

Affected products

Elefant CMS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/36 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
vuldb.com /?id.97257 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20060 · advisory
github.com /jbroadway/elefant · package

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-20060
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-4453-g295-24mh
NVD: CVE-2017-20060

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Summary