CVE-2012-2584

medium

Published 2012-08-12 · 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 Alt-N MDaemon Free 12.5.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in conjunction with a CSS comment within the STYLE attribute of an IMG element, (2) the CSS expression property in conjunction with multiple CSS comments within the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, or (3) an innerHTML attribute within an XML document.

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-20357 webapps windows verified

loneferret · 2012-08-08

Alt-N MDaemon free 12.5.4 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
altn	mdaemon	`12.5.4`

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.