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medium 4.3

CVE-2013-5952 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Freichat (com_freichat) component, possibly 9.4 and earlier, for Joomla!

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-5784

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Freichat (com_freichat) component, possibly 9.4 and earlier, for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id or (2) xhash parameter to client/chat.php or (3) toname parameter to client/plugins/upload/upload.php.

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Exploit prediction

1.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125737 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-03/0275.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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