CVE-2012-1597

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the textEncode function in classes/ezjscajaxcontent.php in eZ JS Core in eZ Publish before 1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2012-08-17 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-1597 is rated Exploit Available (58.3/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.12%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.58% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-1597

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37024 exploit_db edb 2012-03-29 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-1597

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.54% 4.12% +1.58%
2 2026-04-18 2.73% 2.54% -0.19%
3 2025-03-30 2.73%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-1597

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-1597

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-1597

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ez ezjscore <= 1.4 cpe:2.3:a:ez:ezjscore:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ez ezjscore 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:ez:ezjscore:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-1597

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