CVE-2012-4264

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Better WP Security (better_wp_security) plugin before 3.2.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "server variables," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4263.

Affected products

Bit51 Better-Wp-Security: through 3.2.4; 0.1-alpha, 0.1-beta, 0.2-beta, 0.3-beta, 0.4-beta, 0.5-beta (+59)

References

http://bit51.com/software/better-wp-security/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fbetter-wp-security&old=542852&new_path=%2Fbetter-wp-security&new=542852
http://bit51.com/software/better-wp-security/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fbetter-wp-security&old=542852&new_path=%2Fbetter-wp-security&new=542852

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