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CVE-2012-1612
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the update manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the update manager in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 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)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (8 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.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- [oss-security] 20120403 Re: CVE-request: Joomla 2012-04 398-20120307 399-20120308 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 52859 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 80880 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/399-20120308-core-xss-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120403 CVE-request: Joomla 2012-04 398-20120307 399-20120308 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 48683 (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)
- 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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