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CVE-2012-5692· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Unspecified vulnerability in admin/sources/base/core.php in Invision Power Board (aka IPB or IP.Board) 3.1.x through 3.3.x has unknown impac

Unspecified vulnerability in admin/sources/base/core.php in Invision Power Board (aka IPB or IP.Board) 3.1.x through 3.3.x has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v2.0—Weaponized No fix recorded
Published
Oct 31, 2012
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
26.0% · 98th percentile
CWE
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Action score

48

Plan

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CVSS
40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
8 / 30 · 26.0%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
invisioncommunityinvision power board
invisionpowerinvision power board

Affected versions

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

  • invisioncommunity invision power board3.1.2
  • invisioncommunity invision power board3.3.0
  • invisionpower invision power board3.1.0
  • invisionpower invision power board3.1.1
  • invisionpower invision power board3.1.3
  • invisionpower invision power board3.1.4
  • invisionpower invision power board3.2.0
  • invisionpower invision power board3.2.1
  • invisionpower invision power board3.2.2

Same product

invisioncommunity: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2012-2226Invision Power Board before 3.3.1 fails to sanitize user-supplied input which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information o
    41Plan
  • CVE-2013-3725Invision Power Board (IPB) through 3.x allows admin account takeover leading to code execution.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2017-8898Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has stored XSS in the Announcements, allowing privilege escalation from a
    40Plan
  • CVE-2014-4928SQL injection vulnerability in Invision Power Board (aka IPB or IP.Board) before 3.4.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL comm
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2017-8899Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite 4.1.19.2 and earlier has a composite of Stored XSS and Information Disclosure issues in the at
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2015-6812Invision Power Services IPS Community Suite (aka Invision Power Board, IPB, or Power Board) before 4.0.12.1 allows remote attackers to cause
    31Monitor

Remediation

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Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

  • Metasploit module ×1
  • Exploit-DB entry ×3

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entryremote2012-11-13
Exploit-DB entrywebapps2012-11-01
Exploit-DB entrywebapps2012-11-07
Metasploit moduleexploit/unix/webapp/invision_pboard_unserialize_execInvision IP.Board unserialize() PHP Code Executionexploit2012-10-25

Research context

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Timeline

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  1. Metasploit-6 d
  2. Published
  3. First PoC+1 d
  4. TodaySep 30, 2026+5082 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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

Patch and commit links

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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

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
C · data can be read
Integrity
C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
C
Integrity impact
C
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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