{"id":"CVE-2014-5193","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-5193","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:53:10.631Z","title":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the category parameter.","description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the category parameter.  NOTE: the url parameter vector is already covered by CVE-2014-5082.","published":"2014-08-07T11:13:37.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:11:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["sphider/sphider"],"epss":{"score":0.01832,"percentile":0.78741,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2014-07-28","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":34189,"kind":"exploit","title":"Sphider Search Engine 1.3.6 - Multiple Vulnerabilities","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34189","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/34189.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/34189.txt","published":"2014-07-28","added":"2014-07-28","updated":"2016-10-27","author":"Mike Manzotti","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":80,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-109801","OSVDB-109800","OSVDB-109799","OSVDB-109798","CVE-2014-5194","CVE-2014-5193","CVE-2014-5192","CVE-2014-5082"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comsphider-1.3.6.zip","screenshotUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.com/screenshots/idlt34500/screen-shot-2014-07-30-at-102900.png","referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 1.8%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/109799","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/109800","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34189","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/109799","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/109800","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34189","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5193","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}