CVE-2010-0971
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ATutor 1.6.4 allow remote authenticated users, with Instructor privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Question and (2) Choice fields in tools/polls/add.php, the (3) Type and…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is low and EPSS is 1.7%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ATutor 1.6.4 allow remote authenticated users, with Instructor privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Question and (2) Choice fields in tools/polls/add.php, the (3) Type and (4) Title fields in tools/groups/create_manual.php, and the (5) Title field in assignments/add_assignment.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- CVSS 2.0
- 2.1 LOWAV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.65% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 11 March 2010
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- atutor/atutor
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://osvdb.org/62904
- http://osvdb.org/62905
- http://osvdb.org/62906
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-exploits/atutor-xss.txtExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38906Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11685Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38656
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56852
- http://osvdb.org/62904
- http://osvdb.org/62905
- http://osvdb.org/62906
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/1003-exploits/atutor-xss.txtExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38906Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11685Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38656
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56852
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.