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CVE-2012-2920

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2920 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the User Photo plugin for WordPress, specifically affecting versions prior to 0.9.5.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML through the PATH_INFO parameter when accessing wp-admin/options-general.php. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure (P) but not impacting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low awareness and limited threat activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:user_photo:user_photo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:user_photo:user_photo:0.7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:user_photo:user_photo:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:user_photo:user_photo:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:user_photo:user_photo:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0216 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 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 / 81806
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset
secunia.com / advisories/49100
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75496
wordpress.org / extend/plugins/user-photo/changelog
securityfocus.com / bid/53449