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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-6720 · published 11 February 2020

CVE-2012-6720: Socialengine cross-site scripting vulnerability

Socialengine · Socialengine

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SocialEngine before 4.2.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) title parameter to music/create, (2) location parameter to events/create, or (3) search parameter to widget/index/content_id/*.

6.1 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.81% · top 44.9% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
6.1CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.3
0.81%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SocialEngine before 4.2.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) title parameter to music/create, (2) location parameter to events/create, or (3) search parameter to widget/index/content_id/*.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

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

References

LinkTags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/396 ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/396 ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-6720), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-29). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.