CVE-2014-2861: Paperthin Commonspot Content Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in PaperThin CommonSpot before 7.0.2 and 8.x before 8.0.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string, as demonstrated by bypassing a protection mechanism that removes only the "alert" string.

Affected products

• Paperthin Commonspot Content Server: up to and including 7.0.1; version 8.0.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only

Published 2014-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.