CVE-2012-4267

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in user/register in Sockso 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.

Affected products

Pu-Gh Sockso: through 1.5; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+20)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/49148
http://smwyg.com/blog/#sockso-persistant-xss-attack
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18868
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/commit/fe2d895ea8eb8b8ccad5a3319f472e45d6ba5136
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/issues/93
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/pull/99/files
http://secunia.com/advisories/49148
http://smwyg.com/blog/#sockso-persistant-xss-attack
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18868
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/commit/fe2d895ea8eb8b8ccad5a3319f472e45d6ba5136
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/issues/93
https://github.com/rodnaph/sockso/pull/99/files

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