CVE-2012-6561: Elgg

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in engine/lib/views.php in Elgg before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the view parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Elgg Elgg: up to and including 1.8.4; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only; version 1.7.4 only; …

Published 2013-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.