CVE-2012-6312

medium

Published 2012-12-11 · 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Video Lead Form plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the errMsg parameter in a video-lead-form action to wp-admin/admin.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.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-38066 webapps php verified

Aditya Balapure · 2012-11-29

WordPress Plugin Video Lead Form - 'errMsg' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
video-lead-form	uk-cookie	`-`
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.