CVE-2012-6550

medium

Published 2013-04-02 · 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 ZeroClipboard before 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via "the clipText returned from the flash object," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1808.

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-38329 webapps php verified

MustLive · 2013-02-20

ZeroClipboard 1.9.x - 'id' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
zeroclipboard_project	zeroclipboard	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.7"}`
zeroclipboard_project	zeroclipboard	`1.0.5`

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.