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CVE-2012-1068
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rc_ajax function in core.php in the WP-RecentComments plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rc_ajax function in core.php in the WP-RecentComments plugin before 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the page parameter, related to AJAX paging.
Timeline
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Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/416723/wp-recentcomments/trunk/core.php?old=316325&old_path=wp-recentcomments%2Ftrunk%2Fcore.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 49734 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- wprecentcomments-core-xss(70003) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/changelog/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 75635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 46141 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1105 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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