CVE-2012-1652

low
Published 2012-09-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hierarchical Select module 6.x-3.x before 6.x-3.8 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with administer taxonomy permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "the vocabulary's help text."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/48235

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupalcode.org/project/hierarchical_select.git/commit/be32dceb17d25553e474c295a8c3db69eab95cee

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupal.org/node/1461724

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupal.org/node/1461318

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.0
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.1
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.2
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.3
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.4
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.5
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.6
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.7
wim_leershierarchical_select6.x-3.x
drupal drupaldrupal-
wimleershierarchical_select6.x-3.0
wimleershierarchical_select6.x-3.1
wimleershierarchical_select6.x-3.x

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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