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CVE-2012-4437

Published: Oct 1, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-79
NVD MITRE
4.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
2.5%
Top 17.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:NI:PA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

smartysmarty
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
n/an/a
smarty/smartyPackagistOSS Libraries
smartyoss-projectOSS Librariesaka smarty template engine, smarty
packagistpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0468.html
advisories.mageia.org
http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/browse/trunk/distribution/change_log.txt
code.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/detail?r=4658
code.google.com
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Timeline

Published
Oct 1, 2012
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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