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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2020-10461 json

The way comments in article.php (vulnerable function in include/functions-article.php) are handled in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language…

published 2020-03-12 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-2914

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The way comments in article.php (vulnerable function in include/functions-article.php) are handled in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to execute Stored (Blind) XSS (injecting arbitrary web script or HTML) in admin/manage-comments.php, via the GET parameter cmt.

Exploit prediction

0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • antoniocannito.it http://antoniocannito.it/?p=137#bxss2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • antoniocannito.it https://antoniocannito.it/phpkb1#blind-cross-site-scripting-2-cve-2020-10461 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.