4.6

CVE-2013-2204: tinymce media Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 4.6v3.1MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2013-2204
Published 08-07-2013Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-2204 is a medium (CVSS 4.6) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in tinymce media. EPSS estimates a 2.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.6/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
2.90%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-2718-1MGASA-2013-0198

Timeline

  1. 08-07-2013
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.90%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

87%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.90% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.90%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Moxieplayer

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress≤ 3.5.1 (fixed in 3.5.2)
  • wordpressEOL≤ 3.5.1 | 0.71 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5:a | 1.3 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.3 | 1.5 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.1.1 | 1.5.1.2 | 1.5.1.3 | 1.5.2 | 1.6.2 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.8 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.1 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.5 | 2.5.1 | 2.6 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.3 | 2.6.5 | 2.7 | 2.7.1 | 2.8 | 2.8.1 | 2.8.2 | 2.8.3 | 2.8.4 | 2.8.4:a | 2.8.5 | 2.8.5.1 | 2.8.5.2 | 2.8.6 | 2.9 | 2.9.1 | 2.9.1.1 | 2.9.2 | 3.3 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.3.3 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.5.0
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 3.5.2+dfsg-1
Tinymce1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

References

7 links