CVE-2012-0040

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in modules/core/www/no_cookie.php in SimpleSAMLphp 1.8.1 and possibly other versions before 1.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the retryURL parameter.

Affected products

simplesamlphp: through 1.8.1; 0.4, 0.5, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (+9)

References

http://code.google.com/p/simplesamlphp/issues/detail?id=468
http://osvdb.org/78254
http://secunia.com/advisories/47491
http://secunia.com/advisories/47534
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2387
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/20/20
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51372
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72313
http://code.google.com/p/simplesamlphp/issues/detail?id=468
http://osvdb.org/78254
http://secunia.com/advisories/47491
http://secunia.com/advisories/47534

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