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CVE-2012-4989

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4989 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenX 2.8.10 (prior to revision 81823), specifically within the admin/plugin-index.php file. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'parent' parameter during an 'info' action. With a CVSS score of 4.3, it is a medium-severity vulnerability requiring medium attack complexity, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-37938) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openx:openx:2.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-37938 · Oct 10, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0439 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0065.html
Exploit
osvdb.org / 86092
secunia.com / advisories/50877
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79196
svn.openx.org / openx/trunk/lib/templates/admin/plugin-group-view.html
htbridge.com / advisory/HTB23116
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/55860
Exploit