VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4267

medium
Published 2012-08-13 · Modified 2026-04-29
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in user/register in Sockso 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18868 webapps php verified
Ciaran McNally · 2012-05-12

Sockso 1.51 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pu-ghsockso{"endIncluding":"1.5"}
pu-ghsockso1.1
pu-ghsockso1.1.1
pu-ghsockso1.1.2
pu-ghsockso1.1.3
pu-ghsockso1.1.4
pu-ghsockso1.1.5
pu-ghsockso1.1.6
pu-ghsockso1.1.7
pu-ghsockso1.1.8
pu-ghsockso1.2
pu-ghsockso1.2.1
pu-ghsockso1.2.2
pu-ghsockso1.2.3
pu-ghsockso1.2.4
pu-ghsockso1.2.5
pu-ghsockso1.2.6
pu-ghsockso1.2.7
pu-ghsockso1.3
pu-ghsockso1.3.1
pu-ghsockso1.3.2
pu-ghsockso1.3.3
pu-ghsockso1.3.4
pu-ghsockso1.3.5
pu-ghsockso1.4
pu-ghsockso1.4.1
pu-ghsockso1.4.2

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.