CVE-2012-1612
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the update manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/399-20120308-core-xss-vulnerability.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
- http://www.osvdb.org/80880
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52859
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/399-20120308-core-xss-vulnerability.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
- http://www.osvdb.org/80880
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52859
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.