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CVE-2012-2578

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SmarterMail 9.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a JavaScript alert function used in conjunction with the fromCharCode method, (2) a SCRIPT element, (3) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, or (4) an innerHTML attribute within an XML document.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Smartertools — Smartermail

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:41:42.837",
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