Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-4958

Title: Silverstripe Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-4958

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Apr 08, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.72%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-4958: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the process function in SSViewer.php in SilverStripe before 2.3.13 and 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the QUERY_STRING to template placeholders, as demonstrated by a request to (1) admin/reports/, (2) admin/comments/, (3) admin/, (4) admin/show/, (5) admin/assets/, and (6) admin/security/.

Impacted Vendors

silverstripe 1

Reference Links

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12 http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6 http://osvdb.org/76258 http://secunia.com/advisories/46390 http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-024.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520050/100/0/threaded https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/16c3235 https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/52a895f https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/bdd6391 http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.12 http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.6 http://osvdb.org/76258 http://secunia.com/advisories/46390 http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-024.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520050/100/0/threaded https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/16c3235 https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/52a895f https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/bdd6391

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-4958 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36226

View Code

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 08, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.