CVE-2012-5683

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in ZPanel 10.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create new FTP users via a CreateFTP action in the ftp_management module to the default URI, (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the inFullname parameter in an UpdateAccountSettings action in the my_account module to zpanel/, or (3) conduct SQL injection attacks via the inEmailAddress parameter in an UpdateClient action in the manage_clients module to the default URI.

Published: 2014-08-14 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5683 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.13%). Core evidence: 3 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-2012-5683

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
22490 exploit_db edb 2012-11-05 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5683

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 1.90% 1.13% -0.76%
2 2026-03-30 2.04% 1.90% -0.14%
3 2026-01-22 2.04%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5683

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-2012-5683

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5683

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
zpanelcp zpanel <= 10.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:zpanelcp:zpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5683

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