Pligg is a content-management and social-networking platform whose vulnerability footprint, though concentrated in a narrow product line, sits among the more prominent vendors in the landscape. Vulnerabilities affecting Pligg skew toward meaningful serious outcomes and have acquired public exploit code at an elevated rate, reflecting both the platform's history as an open-source project and the appeal of its web-facing attack surface to security researchers. The exposure recurs consistently across the Pligg CMS product through web-layer weakness classes including cross-site request forgery, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, path traversal, and exposure of sensitive information—weaknesses endemic to content-management systems and particularly common in older or less-frequently-maintained codebases. Defenders deploying Pligg should prioritize input-handling and request-origin validation controls and treat this vendor's security advisories with urgency given the public-exploit tendency; live severity, exploitation, and current exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Pligg over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (45 CVEs).
45 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2008-7090HIGH Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Pligg 9.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the $tb_url var | Aug 26, 2009 | 7.8 | 34 | NO | YES |
CVE-2011-5022HIGH SQL injection vulnerability in search.php in Pligg CMS 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the status parameter. | Dec 29, 2011 | 7.5 | 33 | NO | YES |
CVE-2022-34956CRITICAL Pligg CMS v2.0.2 was discovered to contain a time-based SQL injection vulnerability via the page_size parameter at load_data_for_groups.php. | Aug 2, 2022 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-34955CRITICAL Pligg CMS v2.0.2 was discovered to contain a time-based SQL injection vulnerability via the page_size parameter at load_data_for_topusers.php. | Aug 2, 2022 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2008-7091HIGH Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Pligg 9.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) id parameter to vote.php, which is not properly | Aug 26, 2009 | 7.5 | 30 | NO | YES |
CVE-2014-9096HIGH Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in recover.php in Pligg CMS 2.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) id or (2) n parameter. | Nov 26, 2014 | 7.5 | 28 | NO | YES |
CVE-2008-6968HIGH Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in submit.php in Pligg CMS 9.9.5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) category and (2) id parameters. | Aug 13, 2009 | 7.5 | 28 | NO | YES |
CVE-2008-5739HIGH SQL injection vulnerability in evb/check_url.php in Pligg CMS 9.9.5 Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the url parameter. | Dec 26, 2008 | 7.5 | 28 | NO | YES |
CVE-2008-3366HIGH SQL injection vulnerability in story.php in Pligg CMS Beta 9.9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2008- | Jul 30, 2008 | 7.5 | 28 | NO | YES |
CVE-2008-1774HIGH SQL injection vulnerability in editlink.php in Pligg 9.9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter. | Apr 14, 2008 | 7.5 | 28 | NO | YES |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (45 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Pligg.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Pligg — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.