🛡️ CVE-2011-4340 — symphony-2

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Symphony CMS vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the profile parameter to extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php, as demonstrated via requests to (a) the default URI, (b) about/, or (c) drafts/; or (2) the filter parameter in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php, as demonstrated via requests to (d) symphony/publish/comments or (e) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2011-4340 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2011-4340 is recorded against 1 package.

  • symphonycms/symphony-2 (fixed in 2.2.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 12 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
web.archive.org (Web)
packetstormsecurity.org (Web)
seclists.org (Web)
symphony-cms.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
symphonycms/symphony-2 — 2.2.4

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