CVE-2012-4558

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the balancer_handler function in the manager interface in mod_proxy_balancer.c in the mod_proxy_balancer module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x before 2.2.24-dev and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 2.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4 (+21)

References

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101196.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0815.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1207.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1208.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1209.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c?r1=1404653&r2=1413732&diff_format=h
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2637

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