CVE-2012-5837

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 16.0.2; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+164)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
http://osvdb.org/87586
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-102.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56645
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1

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