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CVE-2012-2340 (GCVE-0-2012-2340)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-21 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34
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Summary
The Contact Forms module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.2 for Drupal does not specify sufficiently restrictive permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with the "access the site-wide contact form" permission to modify the module settings via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-05-09 00:00
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  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


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