CVE-2012-1612

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: 2012-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the update manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Joomla!: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3

References

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/399-20120308-core-xss-vulnerability.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
http://www.osvdb.org/80880
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52859
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/399-20120308-core-xss-vulnerability.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/03/5
http://www.osvdb.org/80880
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52859

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