Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pivot 1.40.4 and 1.40.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pivot 1.40.4 and 1.40.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) menu or (2) sort parameter to pivot/index.php, (3) the value of a check array parameter in a delete action to pivot/index.php, (4) the element name in a check array parameter in a delete action to pivot/index.php, (5) the edituser parameter in an edituser action to pivot/index.php, (6) the edit parameter in a templates action to pivot/index.php, (7) the blog parameter in a blog_edit1 action to pivot/index.php, (8) the cat parameter in a cat_edit action to pivot/index.php, (9) a certain form field in a doaction=1 request to pivot/index.php, (10) the url field in a my_weblog edit_prefs action to pivot/user.php, or (11) the username (aka name) field in a my_weblog reg_user action to pivot/user.php.
- Published
- Jun 19, 2009
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 4.1% · 90th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-79
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Report tools
Action score
18
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 4.1%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| pivot | pivot | cpe:2.3:a:pivot:pivot |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- pivot pivot1.40.4
- pivot pivot1.40.7
Same product
pivot: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2006-3531includes/editor/insert_image.php in Pivot 1.30 RC2 and earlier creates the authentication credentials from parameters, which allows remote a33Monitor
- CVE-2006-3533Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pivot 1.30 RC2 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers 25Monitor
- CVE-2006-3532PHP file inclusion vulnerability in includes/edit_new.php in Pivot 1.30 RC2 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote att22Monitor
- CVE-2009-2134pivot/tb.php in Pivot 1.40.4 and 1.40.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid url parameter, which reveals 21Monitor
- CVE-2008-3128Directory traversal vulnerability in search.php in Pivot 1.40.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
Proof of concept available
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Evidence
- Exploit-DB entry ×1
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| Source | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB entry | webapps | 2009-06-12 |
Research context
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Timeline
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- First PoC-8 d
- Published
- TodaySep 30, 2026+6312 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
nvd-primary
Root cause
User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-79 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;Fixed
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;Attack context
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Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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References
- osvdb.org/55085
- osvdb.org/55086
- secunia.com/advisories/35363
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504300/100/0/threaded
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51098
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51099
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8941
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.