CVE-2011-5023 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pligg CMS 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to the search program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3986

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pligg CMS 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to the search program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3986

Published Dec 29, 2011

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.48%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pligg CMS 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to the search program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3986.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.48% 0.01478

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

EPSS probability 0.01478

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.48% (0.01478)	72.93th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.61% (0.01610)	72.70th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.40% (0.00404)	58.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.20% (0.00201)	59.00th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 17, 2024	0.20% (0.00201)	58.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00195)	55.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.01th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 14, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	55.87th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.96% (0.01962)	55.76th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2257
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51274
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://sitewat.ch/Advisory/View/6
x_refsource_MISCExploitURL Repurposed

Link	Providers	Tags
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2257		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51274		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://sitewat.ch/Advisory/View/6		x_refsource_MISCExploitURL Repurposed

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 29, 2011

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 28, 2011

Link CVE-2011-5023

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2011-5023

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2011-5023