CVE-2012-3844
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 vBulletin 4.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long string in the subject parameter when creating a post.
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vbulletin | vbulletin | 4.1.12 | |
References
- http://hauntit.blogspot.com/2012/04/en-vbulletin-4112-cross-site-scripting.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112385/vBulletin-4.1.12-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53319
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75325
- http://hauntit.blogspot.com/2012/04/en-vbulletin-4112-cross-site-scripting.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112385/vBulletin-4.1.12-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53319
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75325
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.