CVE-2012-2920

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the userphoto_options_page function in user-photo.php in the User Photo plugin before 0.9.5.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to wp-admin/options-general.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

User Photo: through 0.9.5; 0.7.0.1, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.4b (+12)

References

http://osvdb.org/81806
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fuser-photo&old=541880&new_path=%2Fuser-photo&new=541880
http://secunia.com/advisories/49100
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53449
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75496
http://osvdb.org/81806
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fuser-photo&old=541880&new_path=%2Fuser-photo&new=541880
http://secunia.com/advisories/49100
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/changelog/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53449
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75496

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