CVE-2012-2920 (GCVE-0-2012-2920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-21 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:50
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the userphoto_options_page function in user-photo.php in the User Photo plugin before 0.9.5.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to wp-admin/options-general.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/81806 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53449 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/49100 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/ch… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-05-09 00:00
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