{"id":"CVE-2020-12438","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-12438","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:25:54.360Z","title":"An XSS vulnerability exists in the banners.php page of PHP-Fusion 9.03.50.","description":"An XSS vulnerability exists in the banners.php page of PHP-Fusion 9.03.50. This can be exploited because the only security measure used against XSS is the stripping of SCRIPT tags. A malicious actor can use HTML event handlers to run JavaScript instead of using SCRIPT tags.","published":"2020-04-28T21:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:51:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["php-fusion/php-fusion"],"epss":{"score":0.00582,"percentile":0.47517,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.58%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/commit/c36006f900d855f1173f81cea1a774295049f4d8","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/issues/2307","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/commit/c36006f900d855f1173f81cea1a774295049f4d8","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/issues/2307","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12438","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."}