01 Record
CVE-2012-4679
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Newscoop before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the f_user_name parameter.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Newscoop before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the f_user_name parameter.
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
- 2.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.2% 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
- 2012-08-27 21:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-08-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- 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
- 74ddc7fef13577a6aaa61a07483b4cf131e906a2c30885da2091f9a10eec0550
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com52941http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52941
- www.sourcefabric.orghttp://www.sourcefabric.org/en/newscoop/latestrelease/1141/Newscoop-355-and-Newscoop-4-RC4-security-releases.htm
- dev.sourcefabric.orghttp://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CS-4184
- secunia.com48769http://secunia.com/advisories/48769
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comnewscoop-multiple-xss(74781)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74781
- www.htbridge.comhttps://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23084