CVE-2007-4742 — Claroline before 1.8.6 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information via an invalid value in the sort parameter to admin/adminusers.php, which reveals the path in an error message in some circumstances, as demonstrated by a parameter value containing an XSS sequence

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Claroline before 1.8.6 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information via an invalid value in the sort parameter to admin/adminusers.php, which reveals the path in an error message in some circumstances, as demonstrated by a parameter value containing an XSS sequence

Published Sep 6, 2007

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.04%

Description

Claroline before 1.8.6 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information via an invalid value in the sort parameter to admin/adminusers.php, which reveals the path in an error message in some circumstances, as demonstrated by a parameter value containing an XSS sequence.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.04% 0.01042

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01042

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (15 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.04% (0.01042)	62.78th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.04% (0.01042)	59.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.28% (0.00283)	49.63th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.36% (0.00362)	73.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 10, 2024	0.36% (0.00362)	72.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 2, 2024	0.34% (0.00341)	71.43th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.33% (0.00329)	70.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 18, 2024	0.31% (0.00314)	69.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.30% (0.00301)	68.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 1, 2024	0.29% (0.00292)	65.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.28% (0.00278)	63.28th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

References (3)

http://cvs.claroline.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/claroline/claroline/admin/adminusers.php?only_with_tag=V_1_8&r2=1.109.2.1&r1=1.10
x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/39160
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13448
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://cvs.claroline.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/claroline/claroline/admin/adminusers.php?only_with_tag=V_1_8&r2=1.109.2.1&r1=1.10		x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/39160		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13448		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 6, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Sep 6, 2007

Link CVE-2007-4742

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-4742

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-4742