CVE-2012-4437
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.46% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-10-01 01:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-08-21
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a54e7673ca0a9d8afbca6a4d3d4f3f51baa1980f774ff37f8e3b8a46f1c2d04b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120919 CVE Request Smarty / php-Smarty: XSS in Smarty exception messageshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/19/1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-14578http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088138.html
- code.google.comhttp://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/browse/trunk/distribution/change_log.txt
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0468.html
- secunia.com50589http://secunia.com/advisories/50589
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2014:221http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:221
- jvndb.jvn.jpJVNDB-2012-000094http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2012/JVNDB-2012-000094.html
- jvn.jpJVN#63650108http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN63650108/index.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120919 Re: CVE Request Smarty / php-Smarty: XSS in Smarty exception messageshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/3
- www.securityfocus.com55506http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55506
- code.google.comhttp://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/detail?r=4658
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.10-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.10-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- smarty3 Fixed in 3.1.10-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.