CVE-2012-4037

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web client in Transmission before 2.61 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) comment, (2) created by, or (3) name field in a torrent file.

Affected products

Transmissionbt Transmission: through 2.60; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+80)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-07/0349.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50027
http://secunia.com/advisories/50769
http://www.madirish.net/541
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54705
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1584-1
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4979
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.61
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-07/0349.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50027
http://secunia.com/advisories/50769
http://www.madirish.net/541

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