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CVE-2012-4998

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4998 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the index.php file of starCMS, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'q' parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No), an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB (EDB-36895), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:starcms:starcms:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-36895 · Mar 2, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0166 is in the 51st 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 / 79739
packetstormsecurity.org / files/110376/starcms-xss.txt
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/73637
securityfocus.com / bid/52262
Exploit