CVE-2012-4751

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.17, and 3.1.x before 3.1.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with whitespace before a javascript: URL in the SRC attribute of an element, as demonstrated by an IFRAME element.

Affected products

OTRS AG OTRS: 2.4.0-beta1, 2.4.0-beta2, 2.4.0-beta3, 2.4.0-beta4, 2.4.0-beta5, 2.4.0-beta6 (+48)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00036.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/117504/OTRS-3.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/603276
http://www.otrs.com/en/open-source/community-news/security-advisories/security-advisory-2012-03/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56093
http://znuny.com/assets/proof_of_concept_cve_2012-4751-znuny.py
http://znuny.com/en/#%21/advisory/ZSA-2012-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00036.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/117504/OTRS-3.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/603276
http://www.otrs.com/en/open-source/community-news/security-advisories/security-advisory-2012-03/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56093

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