CVE-2012-4263

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Published 2012-08-13 · 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

4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in inc/admin/content.php in the Better WP Security (better_wp_security) plugin before 3.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP_USER_AGENT header.

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
bit51	better-wp-security	`{"endIncluding":"3.2.4"}`
bit51	better-wp-security	`-`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.3`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.4`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.5`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.6`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.7`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.8`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.9`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.10`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.11`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.13`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.14`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.15`
bit51	better-wp-security	`0.16`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.0`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.3`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.4`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.5`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.6`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.7`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.8`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.8.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`1.9`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.0`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.3`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.4`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.5`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.6`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.7`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.8`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.9`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.10`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.11`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.12`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.13`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.14`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.15`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.16`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.17`
bit51	better-wp-security	`2.18`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.3`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.4`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.5`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.6`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.7`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.8`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.9`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.10`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.11`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.0.12`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.2.1`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.2.2`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.2.3`
bit51	better-wp-security	`3.2.5`
wordpress	wordpress	`-`

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.