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CVE-2012-6453

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6453 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RSS Reader extension for MediaWiki, specifically versions prior to 0.2.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through a specially crafted RSS feed. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. 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
<= 0.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:rssreader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:rssreader:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:rssreader:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:rssreader:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:rssreader:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 17th 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

bugs.debian.org / 696179
mediawiki.org / wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader