Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as page editor
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DeliveryStore JS in page field (Keywords/Content)
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ExploitAdmin opens page backup viewer
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ExecutionPayload decoded and executed in admin context
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ImpactHijack admin session or actions
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires two combined conditions: (1) the attacker must already be an authenticated GetSimple CMS CE user with rights to edit a page (to store the payload in a page's Keywords, Description, Menu text, or Content), and (2) an administrator must subsequently open that specific page's backup in the backup viewer (admin/backup-edit.php), where the stored value is decoded via htmldecode()/strip_decode() and printed without re-escaping. Limiting factors: payload execution is not immediate or attacker-triggered - it depends on an admin voluntarily viewing the affected backup; the attacker needs a valid page-editing account; and impact is confined to the admin control-panel browser context. No fixed version exists, so mitigation currently requires restricting page-editing accounts and caution when viewing backups of untrusted pages. |
| Impact | The provided CVSS 4.0 vector scores 8.8, but this appears inflated and partly inconsistent with the description. The vector lists PR:N (no privileges) and UI:N (no user interaction), yet the description explicitly states this is an AUTHENTICATED stored XSS requiring a user who can edit a page, and execution only occurs when an administrator later views that page's backup - i.e. it genuinely requires both attacker privileges (PR:L) and victim interaction (UI/Active). This PR:N/UI:N vs. description conflict should be verified with the vendor advisory; the realistic score is lower than 8.8. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code referenced, so the exploitation signal is weak: no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The practical risk is a privilege-escalation path - a lower-privileged page editor can hijack an administrator's session/actions in the control panel - which is meaningful in multi-user deployments but constrained by the dual requirement of attacker edit access plus admin viewing the crafted backup. Compounding factor: no patch is currently available, so defenders cannot remediate by upgrading. Net assessment: a real but conditional second-order (stored) XSS, not a drive-by critical; priority is tempered by niche product footprint, authentication requirement, and absence of exploitation evidence. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged user with page-editing rights stores a JavaScript payload in a page's Keywords, Description, Menu text, or Content field, which is correctly HTML-encoded on save. When an administrator later opens that page's backup in admin/backup-edit.php, the viewer decodes the stored value (via htmldecode()/strip_decode()) and prints it unescaped, executing the attacker's script in the admin control-panel context. No public exploit code is currently referenced, but the vulnerability class (stored XSS via double-decoding) is straightforward to weaponize for admin session or action hijacking. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in GetSimple CMS CE 3.3.22 and earlier lets an authenticated user with page-editing rights plant JavaScript in a page's Keywords, Description, Menu text or Content, which then executes in the browser of any administrator who later opens that page's backup in the admin control panel (admin/backup-edit.php). Exploitation requires two combined conditions - a valid page-editing account and an administrator voluntarily viewing the affected backup - so it is not attacker-triggered, and the impact is confined to the admin control-panel browser context; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and no vendor patch is currently available. The supplied CVSS 4.0 score of 8.8 appears inflated and inconsistent with the described prerequisites (our assessment is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, roughly 5.4), and there is no evidence of active exploitation.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch is identified at time of analysis - the advisory states there are no publicly available patches, so no fixed version can be cited and remediation must be compensating. Because the injection path requires an account that can edit pages, the highest-value control is to restrict and audit page-editing privileges: remove or downgrade edit rights for any untrusted or lower-privileged user, and rotate credentials of accounts that previously had them, accepting that this restricts legitimate content workflows. Second, treat the backup viewer as an untrusted-input surface: restrict access to admin/backup-edit.php with web-server authorization rules or IP allowlisting (for example Apache/nginx location-based allow/deny or php-fpm access controls), understanding that this blocks the restore/inspection workflow for the administrators who need it, or temporarily remove/rename the script if backups are not in active use. Third, sanitize or clear the stored injected payloads - inspect and clean Keywords, Description, Menu text and Content fields of pages authored by potentially malicious accounts, since the stored value persists until overwritten. As a defence-in-depth measure, ensure the admin panel is not reachable from untrusted networks, deploy a content security policy that forbids inline script in the admin context (which would blunt execution but can break existing admin UI behaviour), and monitor the vendor advisory at https://github.com/GetSimpleCMS-CE/GetSimpleCMS-CE/security/advisories/GHSA-p6vf-2xr7-mcf4 for an upstream fix to apply as soon as it is published.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
GetSimple CMS CE is a PHP-based flat-file content management system, and the flaw is a classic CWE-79 cross-site scripting defect rooted in an encode/decode asymmetry rather than a missing output filter. Page metadata (Keywords, Description, Menu text, Content) is correctly HTML-encoded when a page is saved, but the backup viewer at admin/backup-edit.php reverses that encoding with the legacy htmldecode() / strip_decode() helpers and then echoes the result straight into the admin page without re-escaping - a decode-then-print pattern that reintroduces the very characters the save-time encoding removed. The CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:getsimplecms-ce:getsimplecms-ce:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) is version-agnostic, and the EUVD entry constrains the affected range to 3.3.22 and below, so every release up to and including 3.3.22 should be treated as vulnerable until a fixed build appears. The exploitable sink is the backup viewer itself, meaning the malicious markup is only rendered in the privileged admin session that opens the backup, and the injected script inherits that administrator's control-panel context (the assessed vector scores scope as Changed, S:C, with low integrity and low confidentiality impact). The provided CVSS 4.0 vector claims PR:N/UI:N, which contradicts the description's requirement for an authenticated page editor and an administrator who chooses to view the backup; the authoritative assessment uses PR:L/UI:R and should be treated as the accurate representation of exploitation conditions.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Authenticated page editor (PR:L) stores the payload, but execution needs an admin to view the backup (UI:R); cross-context execution in the admin panel gives S:C with limited C/I impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).
CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M
DescriptionCVE.org
GetSimple CMS is a content management system (CMS), and GetSimple CMS CE is the community edition of that CMS. In versions 3.3.22 and prior, an authenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the page backup viewer (admin/backup-edit.php). Page fields are correctly HTML-encoded when a page is saved, but the backup viewer decodes them again (htmldecode() / strip_decode()) and prints the result without re-escaping. A user who can edit a page can store JavaScript in a page's Keywords, Description, Menu text or Content; it executes in the browser of any administrator who later views that page's backup, in the context of the admin control panel. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Technical POC Analysis
CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation).
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Executive ViewAI
GetSimple CMS CE 3.3.22 and earlier contain a stored cross-site scripting flaw that allows anyone holding page-editing rights to plant malicious JavaScript in page metadata, which then executes inside an administrator's browser when the corresponding page backup is opened in the admin control panel. Exploitation depends on a combination of an already-provisioned content-editing account and an administrator manually opening the crafted backup, so the exposure is concentrated in organizations that grant page-editing privileges broadly or to external contributors. Leadership should treat this as a contained administrative-console risk rather than a perimeter compromise, with the main concern being theft of administrator sessions or credentials within the CMS.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; interim mitigations include restricting admin/backup-edit.php to trusted administrators, disabling or removing the backup-edit feature, auditing and minimizing page-editing accounts, applying input sanitization and output encoding on the affected fields, enforcing Content Security Policy on the admin path, and monitoring admin console sessions for anomalous activity.
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