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CVE-2012-4256

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4256 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the jNews (com_jnews) component 7.5.1 for Joomla!, affecting various Joomla! and Joobi jNews products. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote unauthenticated attackers to reveal the server's installation path through error messages generated by the 'emailsearch' parameter. While the potential impact is limited to information disclosure (CWE-200), there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joobi:com_jnews:7.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0148 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

hauntit.blogspot.com / 2012/04/en-jnews-jnewscore751-information.html
Exploit
packetstormsecurity.org / files/112233/jNews-7.5.1-Information-Disclosure.html
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75198