CVE-2012-4251

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MySQLDumper 1.24.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) page parameter to index.php, (2) phase parameter to install.php, (3) tablename or (4) dbid parameter to sql.php, or (5) filename parameter to restore.php in learn/cubemail/.

Published: 2012-08-13 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-4251 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.73%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 6 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-4251

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37128 exploit_db edb 2012-04-27 Exploit-DB ↗
37125 exploit_db edb 2012-04-27 Exploit-DB ↗
37127 exploit_db edb 2012-04-27 Exploit-DB ↗
37133 exploit_db edb 2012-04-27 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-4251

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 2026-04-14 9.56% 7.73% -1.83%
2 2026-03-12 2.70% 9.56% +6.86%
3 2025-06-30 2.70%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-4251

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-4251

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-4251

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mysqldumper mysqldumper 1.24.4 cpe:2.3:a:mysqldumper:mysqldumper:1.24.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-4251

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