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CVE-2012-1262

medium
Published 2012-03-03 · 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
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cgi-bin/mt/mt-wizard.cgi in Movable Type before 4.38, 5.0x before 5.07, and 5.1x before 5.13, when the product is incompletely installed, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the dbuser parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0318.

Predictions

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

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
movabletypemovable_type_open_source{"endIncluding":"4.37"}
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.0
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.1
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.01
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.2
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.3
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.23
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.25
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.26
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.31
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.32
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.33
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.34
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.35
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.36
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.261
movabletypemovable_type_open_source4.361
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.1
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.02
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.03
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.04
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.05
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.06
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.11
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.12
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.031
movabletypemovable_type_open_source5.051
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise{"endIncluding":"4.37"}
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.0
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.1
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.01
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.2
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.3
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.23
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.25
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.26
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.31
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.32
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.33
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.34
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.35
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.36
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.261
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise4.361
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.1
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.02
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.03
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.04
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.05
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.06
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.11
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.12
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.031
movabletypemovable_type_enterprise5.051
movabletypemovable_type_advanced{"endIncluding":"4.37"}
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.0
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.1
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.01
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.2
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.3
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.23
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.25
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.26
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.31
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.32
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.33
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.34
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.35
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.36
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.261
movabletypemovable_type_advanced4.361
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.1
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.02
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.03
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.04
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.05
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.06
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.11
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.12
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.031
movabletypemovable_type_advanced5.051
movabletypemovable_type_pro{"endIncluding":"4.37"}
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.0
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.1
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.01
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.2
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.3
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.23
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.25
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.26
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.31
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.32
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.33
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.34
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.35
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.36
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.261
movabletypemovable_type_pro4.361
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.1
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.02
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.03
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.04
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.05
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.06
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.11
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.12
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.031
movabletypemovable_type_pro5.051

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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