CVE-2012-4238

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/code/tce_edit_answer.php in TCExam before 11.3.008 allows remote authenticated users with level 5 or greater permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the question_subject_id parameter.

Affected products

TCExam: through 11.3.007; 10.1.000, 10.1.001, 10.1.002, 10.1.003, 10.1.004, 10.1.005 (+94)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0090.html
http://freecode.com/projects/tcexam/releases/347125
http://secunia.com/advisories/50141
http://tcexam.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tcexam/tcexam%3Bh=edf6e08622642f1b2421f4355d98250d9e1b0742
http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/tcexam-cross-site-scripting.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0090.html
http://freecode.com/projects/tcexam/releases/347125
http://secunia.com/advisories/50141
http://tcexam.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tcexam/tcexam%3Bh=edf6e08622642f1b2421f4355d98250d9e1b0742
http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/tcexam-cross-site-scripting.html

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