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CVE-2012-6555

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6555 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LatestComment plugin version 1.1 for Vanilla Forums, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML through a discussion title. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of modifying data. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vanillaforums:latestcomment:1.1:*:*:*:*:vanilla:*:*

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
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-18908 · May 18, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 66th 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

secunia.com / advisories/49249
Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/18908
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
henryhoggard.co.uk / security/191
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/53633
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry