CVE-2012-5881

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: 2012-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Flash component infrastructure in YUI 2.4.0 through 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to charts.swf, a similar issue to CVE-2010-4207.

Affected products

yahoo Yui: 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.0 (+8)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56385
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/11/05/post-mortem-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://yuilibrary.com/support/20121030-vulnerability/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80118
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56385
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/11/05/post-mortem-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2/
http://yuilibrary.com/support/20121030-vulnerability/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80118

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