VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0782

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Published 2012-01-30 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbhost, (2) dbname, or (3) uname parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue; also, it is unclear whether this specific XSS scenario has security relevance

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18417 webapps php verified
Trustwave's SpiderLabs · 2012-01-25

WordPress Core 3.3.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"3.3.1"}
wordpress wordpresswordpress0.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress0.71
wordpress wordpresswordpress0.72
wordpress wordpresswordpress0.711
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress1.5.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.10
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.11
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.1.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.3

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.