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FKIE_CVE-2012-6554

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-05-23 15:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:48

Severity

Summary

functions/html_to_text.php in the Chat module before 1.5.2 for activeCollab allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via the message[message_text] parameter to chat/add_messag, which is not properly handled when executing the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://osvdb.org/81966
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/49246	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.activecollab.com/downloads/category/4/package/62/releases	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18898	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53624
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75741
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://osvdb.org/81966
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/49246	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.activecollab.com/downloads/category/4/package/62/releases	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18898	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53624
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75741

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.0
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.1
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.1.1
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.2
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.3
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.3.2
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.4
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.4.1
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.5
a51dev	activecollab_chat_module	1.5.1

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CVE-2012-6554 (GCVE-0-2012-6554)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-05-23 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:36

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2350 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18898	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/81966	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53624	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.activecollab.com/downloads/category/4/…	x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/49246	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2012-05-16 00:00

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