CVE-2012-0782

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbhost, (2) dbname, or (3) uname parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue; also, it is unclear whether this specific XSS scenario has security relevance

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.3.1; 0.7, 0.71, 0.72, 0.711, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+66)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0150.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18417
https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2012-002.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0150.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18417
https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2012-002.txt

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