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CVE-2012-2371
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in the WP-FaceThumb plugin 0.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject…
Medium4.3EPSS 12.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in the WP-FaceThumb plugin 0.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pagination_wp_facethumb parameter.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 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)
- 12.8% · top 3.7% 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)
- 49143 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112658/WordPress-WP-FaceThumb-Gallery-0.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 53497 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120515 CVE-request: WordPress wp-facethumb plugin reflected XSS vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-facethumb-reflected-xss-vulnerability-cwe-79 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120515 Re: CVE-request: WordPress wp-facethumb plugin reflected XSS vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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