CVE-2012-4247

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 lists/admin/index.php in phpList before 2.10.19 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) remote_user, (2) remote_database, (3) remote_userprefix, (4) remote_password, or (5) remote_prefix parameter to the import4 page; or the (6) id parameter to the bouncerule page.

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-18419 webapps php verified

Cyber-Crystal · 2012-01-26

phpList 2.10.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / Cross-Site Scripting

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
phplist	phplist	`{"endIncluding":"2.10.18"}`
phplist	phplist	`2.6.5`
phplist	phplist	`2.7.1`
phplist	phplist	`2.7.2`
phplist	phplist	`2.8.2`
phplist	phplist	`2.8.7`
phplist	phplist	`2.8.12`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.1`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.2`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.3`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.4`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.5`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.7`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.8`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.9`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.10`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.11`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.12`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.13`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.14`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.15`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.16`
phplist	phplist	`2.10.17`

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.