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CVE-2012-5881

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5881 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the Flash component infrastructure of Yahoo YUI versions 2.4.0 through 2.9.0. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, specifically through vectors related to charts.swf, similar to a previously identified issue. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it is a medium severity vulnerability requiring medium attack complexity but no authentication, potentially leading to information disclosure or defacement. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:yui:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 73rd 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

wagopatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: ['8.6.0 Patch5']

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-jjg9-mf63-vqrpmedium

Cross-site scripting in yui 2.4.0

May 17, 2022
wagollm-wago-968944591f2948bcLOW

XSS Vuln in YUI components in ZCS

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80118
securityfocus.com / bid/56385
yuiblog.com / blog/2012/10/30/security-announcement-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2
yuiblog.com / blog/2012/11/05/post-mortem-swf-vulnerability-in-yui-2
Vendor Advisory
yuilibrary.com / support/20121030-vulnerability
Patch