CVE-2012-4836

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that is not properly handled during rendering of stored data.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Base score: 3.5

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.94%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 59
Score date: 10/5/2026

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)

IBM — Cognos Business Intelligence

CWEs

CWE-79

References

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