CVE-2012-3872

medium

Published 2012-12-28 · 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 Open Constructor 3.12.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the result parameter to data/file/edit.php, (2) the q parameter to confirm.php, or (3) the keyword parameter to users/users.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-37579 webapps php verified

Lorenzo Cantoni · 2012-08-04

Open Constructor - '/data/file/edit.php?result' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-37578 webapps php verified

Lorenzo Cantoni · 2012-08-04

Open Constructor - '/users/users.php?keyword' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-37580 webapps php verified

Lorenzo Cantoni · 2012-08-04

Open Constructor - 'confirm.php?q' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openconstructor_project	openconstructor	`3.12.0`

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.