CVE-2012-6147

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the tree render API (TCA-Tree) in the Backend API in TYPO3 4.5.x before 4.5.21, 4.6.x before 4.6.14, and 4.7.x before 4.7.6 allows remote authenticated backend users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

typo3: 4.5, 4.5.0, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4 (+38)

References

http://osvdb.org/87113
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2012-005/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/19/4
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79967
http://osvdb.org/87113
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2012-005/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/19/4
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79967

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