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CVE-2012-2579

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2579 describes multiple persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in version 1.0.6 of the WP SimpleMail plugin for WordPress. Attackers can inject malicious web script or HTML into email fields such as To, From, Date, or Subject, which would then execute when viewed by other users. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to information disclosure or session hijacking. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wp_simplemail_project:wp_simplemail:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20361 · Aug 8, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0375 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 84534
secunia.com / advisories/50208
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/77538
exploit-db.com / exploits/20361
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/54905
Exploit