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CVE-2012-4751

MEDIUMEPSS 92th pctl
4.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.17, and 3.1.x before 3.1.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with whitespace before a javascript: URL in the SRC attribute of an element, as demonstrated by an IFRAME element.

How to fix

Remediation Available
otrs2Debian
Fixed in:3.1.7+dfsg1-6CVE-2012-4751

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

5.79%probability of exploitation in 30 days
92ndpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 92% of all known CVEs.

References

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