CVE-2014-8772 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_controller in X3 CMS 0.5.1 and 0.5.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_controller in X3 CMS 0.5.1 and 0.5.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter

Published Dec 3, 2014

3.5

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.78%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search_controller in X3 CMS 0.5.1 and 0.5.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.78% 0.00777

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

EPSS probability 0.00777

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	0.78% (0.00777)	54.19th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.78% (0.00777)	50.85th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.15% (0.00148)	32.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.07% (0.00075)	34.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.07% (0.00075)	32.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.07% (0.00075)	30.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/x3-cms-xss-and-csrf/
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.x3cms.net/en/news/article/8bb9a4f84d956653b4daa19ee7c529fa/x3_cms_0.5.2
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/x3-cms-xss-and-csrf/		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.x3cms.net/en/news/article/8bb9a4f84d956653b4daa19ee7c529fa/x3_cms_0.5.2		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 3, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Nov 13, 2014

Link CVE-2014-8772

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-8772

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-8772