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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2020-12718 json

In administration/comments.php in PHP-Fusion 9.03.50, an authenticated attacker can take advantage of a stored XSS vulnerability in the Pre…

published 2020-05-07 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-5006

cvss
5.4
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 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In administration/comments.php in PHP-Fusion 9.03.50, an authenticated attacker can take advantage of a stored XSS vulnerability in the Preview Comment feature. The protection mechanism can be bypassed by using HTML event handlers such as ontoggle.

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/issues/2309 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/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.