CVE-2012-4437

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.

Affected products

Smarty: 1.0, 1.0a, 1.0b, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1 (+85)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0468.html
http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/browse/trunk/distribution/change_log.txt
http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/detail?r=4658
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN63650108/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2012/JVNDB-2012-000094.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088138.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50589
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:221
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/19/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55506
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0468.html

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