CVE-2012-2399

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in swfupload.swf in SWFupload 2.2.0.1 and earlier, as used in WordPress before 3.5.2, TinyMCE Image Manager 1.1 and earlier, and other products allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the buttonText parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3414.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.3.1; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+73)

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/3.3/wp-includes/js/swfupload/swfupload.swf?rev=20503
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25280162/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-002110
http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/
http://osvdb.org/81459
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120746/SWFUpload-Content-Spoofing-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122399/tinymce11-xss.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/110
http://secunia.com/advisories/49138
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/04/wordpress-3-3-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/13

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