CVE-2012-5558

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2012-5558 · Published 09/01/2020 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-5558 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting smiley (smiley project), smileys (smileys project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.96%, higher than 61.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 6.x-1.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
smiley smiley_project	`≥ 6.x-1.0, < 6.x-1.1`	`6.x-1.1`
smileys smileys_project	`≥ 6.x-1.0, < 6.x-1.1`	`6.x-1.1`

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Smiley module 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1 and Smileys module 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with the "administer smiley" permission to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a smiley acronym.

References

drupal.org/node/1840892 · Vendor Advisory
drupal.org/node/1840954 · Vendor Advisory
drupal.org/node/1840956 · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4 · Mailing List

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