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CVE-2012-1125

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1125 describes an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Kish Guest Posting plugin (versions prior to 1.2) for WordPress. This flaw allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files with PHP extensions, leading to potential arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring moderate attack complexity but allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not on the CISA 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:kishore_asokan:kish_guest_posting_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kishore_asokan:kish_guest_posting_plugin:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-18412 · Jan 23, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1157 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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/2012-01/0145.html
Exploit
plugins.svn.wordpress.org / kish-guest-posting/trunk/readme.txt
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/403694/kish-guest-posting/trunk/uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php
secunia.com / advisories/47688
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79563
exploit-db.com / exploits/18412
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/11
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/08/1
osvdb.org / 78479
securityfocus.com / bid/51638
Exploit