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high 7.5

CVE-2014-5297 json

The actionSendErrorReport method in protected/controllers/SiteController.php in X2Engine 2.8 through 4.1.7 allows remote attackers to condu…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-5188

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The actionSendErrorReport method in protected/controllers/SiteController.php in X2Engine 2.8 through 4.1.7 allows remote attackers to conduct PHP object injection and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks via crafted serialized data in the report parameter.

Patch / fix

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Exploit prediction

2.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128352/X2Engine-4.1.7-PHP-Object-Injection.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • karmainsecurity.com http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2014-09 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/77 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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