CVE-2012-2585· NVD / CVE Program· CNA certcc

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus 8.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scri

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus 8.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a SCRIPT element, (2) a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property, (3) a CSS expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, or (4) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, or an e-mail message subject with (5) a SCRIPT element, (6) a CSS expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, (7) a crafted SRC attribute of an IFRAME element, (8) a crafted CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element, or (9) a data: URL in the CONTENT attribute of an HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" META element.

MediumCVSS 4.3 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded

Published: Aug 12, 2012
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 1.4% · 70th percentile
CWE: CWE-79

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CVSS: 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.4%

Affected systems

Vendor	Product	CPE
manageengine	servicedesk plus	cpe:2.3:a:manageengine:servicedesk_plus

Affected versions

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manageengine servicedesk plus8.1

Same product

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Exploit status

Proof of concept available

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Evidence

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Exploit-DB entry	webapps	2012-08-08

Research context

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Timeline

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First PoCAug 8, 2012-5 d
PublishedAug 12, 2012
TodaySep 30, 2026+5161 d

EPSS, last 120 days

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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.

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Attack conditions

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Confidentiality: none
Integrity: P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack complexity: M
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:M/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

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Vulnerable

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

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