CVE-2012-4679

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Newscoop before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the f_user_name parameter.

Published: 2012-08-27 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-4679 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 11.44%, 94th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-4679

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
18752 exploit_db edb 2012-04-19 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-4679

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 2026-04-28 11.02% 11.44% +0.43%
2 2026-03-13 7.10% 11.02% +3.92%
3 2025-03-30 — 7.10% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-4679

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-2012-4679

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-4679

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sourcefabric newscoop <= 3.5.4 cpe:2.3:a:sourcefabric:newscoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sourcefabric newscoop 3.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:sourcefabric:newscoop:3.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sourcefabric newscoop 3.5.1 cpe:2.3:a:sourcefabric:newscoop:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sourcefabric newscoop 3.5.2 cpe:2.3:a:sourcefabric:newscoop:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sourcefabric newscoop 3.5.3 cpe:2.3:a:sourcefabric:newscoop:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-4679

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