Vulnerability · Published May 7, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-12707
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An XSS vulnerability exists in modules/wysiwyg/save.php of LeptonCMS 4.5.0. This can be exploited because the only security measure used against XSS is the stripping of SCRIPT elements. A malicious actor can use HTML event handlers to run JavaScript instead of using SCRIPT elements.