CVE-2012-1652

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hierarchical Select module 6.x-3.x before 6.x-3.8 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with administer taxonomy permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "the vocabulary's help text."

Affected products

Wim Leers Hierarchical Select: 6.x-3.0, 6.x-3.1, 6.x-3.2, 6.x-3.3, 6.x-3.4, 6.x-3.5 (+3)
Wimleers Hierarchical Select: 6.x-3.0, 6.x-3.1, 6.x-3.x-dev

References

http://drupal.org/node/1461318
http://drupal.org/node/1461724
http://drupalcode.org/project/hierarchical_select.git/commit/be32dceb17d25553e474c295a8c3db69eab95cee
http://osvdb.org/79683
http://secunia.com/advisories/48235
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/07/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52228
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73611
http://drupal.org/node/1461318
http://drupal.org/node/1461724
http://drupalcode.org/project/hierarchical_select.git/commit/be32dceb17d25553e474c295a8c3db69eab95cee
http://osvdb.org/79683

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