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CVE-2012-4968

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.13 and 2.4.x before 2.4.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) a crafted string to the AbsoluteLinks, (2) BigSummary, (3) ContextSummary, (4) EscapeXML, (5) FirstParagraph, (6) FirstSentence, (7) Initial, (8) LimitCharacters, (9) LimitSentences, (10) LimitWordCount, (11) LimitWordCountXML, (12) Lower, (13) LowerCase, (14) NoHTML, (15) Summary, (16) Upper, (17) UpperCase, or (18) URL method in a template, different vectors than CVE-2012-0976.

Affected products

• Silverstripe: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5 (+13)

References

• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.13
• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
• https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/0085876
• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.3.13
• http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/trunk/changelogs/2.4.7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
• https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/0085876

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