CVE-2012-2582: otrs Cross-site Scripting
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2012-2582 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in otrs. EPSS estimates a 4.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1Timeline
- 23-08-2012PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.15, and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and OTRS ITSM 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 3.0.x before 3.0.6, and 3.1.x before 3.1.6, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element or (2) UTF-7 text in an HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" META element.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
4.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
91%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 4.20% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (kb.cert.org)
Maturity: unknown
OTRS Open Technology Real Services 3.1.4 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Otrs2 products
- otrs2.4.0:beta1 | 2.4.0:beta2 | 2.4.0:beta3 | 2.4.0:beta4 | 2.4.0:beta5 | 2.4.0:beta6 | 2.4.1 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.5 | 2.4.6 | 2.4.7 | 2.4.8 | 2.4.9 | 2.4.10 | 2.4.11 | 2.4.12 | 3.0.0:beta1 | 3.0.0:beta2 | 3.0.0:beta3 | 3.0.0:beta4 | 3.0.0:beta5 | 3.0.0:beta6 | 3.0.0:beta7 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.14 | 3.1.0 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.5 | 3.1.6 | 3.1.7 | 3.1.8
- otrs_itsm2.1.0 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.4 | 3.0.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.1.0 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.5
Debian1 product
- otrs2< 3.1.7+dfsg1-4
2 vendors · 3 products
References
6 links- www.otrs.com/en/open-source/community-news/security-advisories/security-advisory-2012-01/X Refsource CONFIRMVendor Advisory