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CVE-2012-1792· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in osCommerce/OM/Core/Site/Setup/Application/Install/RPC/DBCheck.php in OSCommerce Online Merchant

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in osCommerce/OM/Core/Site/Setup/Application/Install/RPC/DBCheck.php in OSCommerce Online Merchant 3.0.2, when the software is being installed, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter to oscommerce/index.php, which is not properly handled in an error message. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability, since the ability to access oscommerce/index.php during installation may already imply administrator privileges.

LowCVSS 2.6 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 27, 2012
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.9% · 57th percentile
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Action score

10

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
10 / 40 · 2.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.9%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
oscommerceonline merchant

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • oscommerce online merchantall versions
  • oscommerce online merchantup to 3.0.2 inclusive
  • oscommerce online merchant2.2
  • oscommerce online merchant2.3.0
  • oscommerce online merchant2.3.1

Same product

oscommerce: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2018-25114osCommerce 2.3.4.1 Installer Unauthenticated Configuration File Injection PHP Code Execution
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2014-10033SQL injection vulnerability in the update_zone function in catalog/admin/geo_zones.php in osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.3.4 and earlier all
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2012-2991The PayPal (aka MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_STANDARD) module before 1.1 in osCommerce Online Merchant before 2.3.4 allows remote attackers to set
    20Monitor
  • CVE-2018-18966osCommerce 2.3.4.1 has an incomplete '.htaccess' for blacklist filtering in the "product" page.
    19Monitor
  • CVE-2018-18965osCommerce 2.3.4.1 has an incomplete '.htaccess' for blacklist filtering in the "product" page.
    19Monitor
  • CVE-2018-18964osCommerce 2.3.4.1 has an incomplete '.htaccess' for blacklist filtering in the "product" page.
    19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack complexity
High
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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