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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-2236 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Askbot before 0.7.49 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML v…

published 2014-03-05 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-2276

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Askbot before 0.7.49 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the (1) tag or (2) user search forms.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-2236 updated cvss 4.3

askbot: multiple XSS issues fixed in 0.7.49

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/876e3662ff6b78cc6241338c15e3a0cb49edf4e2#diff-b693b4c02739be4b3231bece15b0eb87 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/a676a86b6b7a5737d4da4f59f71e037406f88d29 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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