CVE-2012-4437 — Cross-site Scripting in Smarty

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
SmartyDebian Smarty3
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Packagistsmarty/smarty< 3.1.12
▶debiandebian/smarty3< smarty3 3.1.10-2 (bookworm)
▶NVDsmarty/smarty75 versions+74

Patches

Patch: code.google.com ↗Patch: code.google.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
Cross-site Scripting in SmartyException↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
Cross-site Scripting in SmartyException↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2012-4437: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3↗2012-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2012-4437: smarty3 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty ...↗2012
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4437 php-Smarty: XSS due improper sanitization of messages within SmartyException [epel-5]↗2013-03-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4437 php-Smarty: XSS due improper sanitization of messages within SmartyException [fedora-rawhide]↗2012-09-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4437 php-Smarty: XSS due improper sanitization of messages within SmartyException↗2012-09-20
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