CVE-2012-1188
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Fork CMS before 3.2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Fork CMS before 3.2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) type or (2) querystring parameters to private/en/error or (3) name parameter to private/en/locale/index.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- Fork CMS 3.x - '/private/en/locale/index?name' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36893webapps, phppublished 28 Feb 2012Verified
- Fork CMS 3.x - '/backend/modules/error/actions/index.php?parse()' Multiple Error Display Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36894webapps, phppublished 28 Feb 2012Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
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)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistforkcms/forkcmsGHSA-j5fj-m342-mgcm (opens in a new tab)
References
9
- forkcms-index-xss(73605) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/1269fe8b3813c7b7d5552a2b88bc2e7bd4d0c1f9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 48183 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-cms-3-2-7-released (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/HTB23075 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20120307 Multiple XSS in Fork CMS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 79692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/commit/995220182068518e89019a265d113518f6566407 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52236 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2022-4283 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j5fj-m342-mgcm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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