CVE-2012-2436: Pligg CMS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an arbitrary parameter in a move or (2) minimize action to admin/admin_index.php; (3) the karma_username parameter to module.php in the karma module; (4) q_1_low, (5) q_1_high, (6) q_2_low, or (7) q_2_high parameter in a configure action to module.php in the captcha module; or (8) the edit parameter to module.php in the admin_language module.

Affected products

• Pligg Pligg CMS: any version; up to and including 1.2.1; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; …

Published 2012-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.