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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-4189 · published 16 November 2012

CVE-2012-4189: Mozilla bugzilla cross-site scripting vulnerability

Mozilla · Bugzilla

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field.

4.3 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 1.0% · top 37.3% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
4.3CVSS 2.0 base score
1.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 4.3.x and 4.4.x before 4.4rc1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field value that is not properly handled during construction of a tabular report, as demonstrated by the Version field.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/ Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296 ExploitPatch
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/3.6.11/ Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:066
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790296 ExploitPatch

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-4189), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-03). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.