$ cve CVE-2012-2586 JSON

CVE-2012-2586 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.5% (pctl 84)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mailtraq 2.17.3.3150 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message subject with (1) a JavaScript alert function used in conjunction with the fromCharCode method or (2) a SCRIPT element; an e-mail message body with (3) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, (4) a data: URL in the CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element, or (5) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an IMG element; or an e-mail message Date header with (6) a JavaScript alert function used in conjunction with the fromCharCode method, (7) a SCRIPT element, (8) a CSS expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, (9) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, or (10) a data: URL in the CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	2.47% — more likely to be exploited than 84% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2012-09-19
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
mailtraq	mailtraq

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	mailtraq 2.17.3.3150 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting	2012-08-08

References

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