CVE-2012-1912

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in preferences.php in PHP Address Book 7.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the from parameter. NOTE: the index.php vector is already covered by CVE-2008-2566.

Affected products

chatelao PHP Address Book: through 7.0; 1.0, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2 (+100)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/42781
http://secunia.com/advisories/49212
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3496653&group_id=157964&atid=805929
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3501716&group_id=157964&atid=805929
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3527242&group_id=157964&atid=805929
http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/2012/SSCHADV2012-007.txt
http://www.darksecurity.de/index.php?/215-SSCHADV2012-013-PHP-Address-Book-7.0.0-Multiple-security-vulnerabilities.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18578
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52396
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53598
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73944
http://secunia.com/advisories/42781

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