CVE-2012-6554

Activecollab Chat Module vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

16.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

functions/html_to_text.php in the Chat module before 1.5.2 for activeCollab allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via the message[message_text] parameter to chat/add_messag, which is not properly handled when executing the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Affected vendor

A51dev

Affected product

Activecollab Chat Module

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2013-05-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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