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CVE-2012-5539

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—

The Organic Groups (OG) module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.5 for Drupal does not properly maintain pending group memberships, which allows remote authenticated users to post to arbitrary groups by modifying their own account while a pending membership is waiting to be approved.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Organic Groups Project — Organic Groups

CWEs

References

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