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CVE-2012-4144

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4144 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) bypass vulnerability in Opera versions prior to 12.01 on Windows/UNIX and prior to 11.66/12.01 on Mac OS X, stemming from improper character escaping in DOM elements. This medium-complexity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) could allow remote attackers to bypass XSS protection mechanisms via a crafted HTML document, leading to information disclosure or other client-side attacks. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 12.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:12.00:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 11.65CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:10.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:10.00:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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

opera.com / docs/changelogs/mac/1166
opera.com / docs/changelogs/mac/1201
opera.com / docs/changelogs/unix/1201
opera.com / docs/changelogs/windows/1201
opera.com / support/kb/view/1025
Vendor Advisory