CVE-2012-5920

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.4 through 2.5 Final, as used in JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.1.1 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4563.

Affected products

Google Web Toolkit: 2.4-beta, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.5.0-rc1, 2.5.0-rc2

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0187.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/31/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57538
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/release-notes#Release_Notes_2_4_0
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80331
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0187.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/31/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57538
https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/release-notes#Release_Notes_2_4_0
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80331

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