CVE-2012-1935

medium

Published 2012-08-27 · 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 Newscoop 3.5.x before 3.5.5 and 4.x before 4 RC4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Back parameter to admin/ad.php, or the (2) token or (3) f_email parameter to admin/password_check_token.php.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18752 webapps php verified

High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-04-19

newscoop 3.5.3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
sourcefabric	newscoop	`3.5.0`
sourcefabric	newscoop	`3.5.1`
sourcefabric	newscoop	`3.5.2`
sourcefabric	newscoop	`3.5.3`
sourcefabric	newscoop	`3.5.4`
sourcefabric	newscoop	`4`

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.