CVE-2012-1901

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in FlexCMS 3.2.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) hijack the authentication of users for requests that change account settings via a request to index.php/profile-edit-save or (2) hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a new page via a request to admin/pages-new-save.

Published: 2012-09-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-1901 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.12%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-1901

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
18609 exploit_db edb 2012-03-16 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-1901

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 0.36% 1.12% +0.76%
2 2026-05-20 0.31% 0.36% +0.04%
3 2026-02-19 0.31%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-1901

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-1901

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-1901

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
flexcms flexcms <= 3.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:flexcms:flexcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
flexcms flexcms 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:flexcms:flexcms:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
flexcms flexcms 2.5 cpe:2.3:a:flexcms:flexcms:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-1901

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