CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-6561.md

### [CVE-2012-6561](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6561)
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### Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in engine/lib/views.php in Elgg before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the view parameter to index.php.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://elgg.org/getelgg.php?forward=elgg-1.8.5.zip

#### Github
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