Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2577

Title: Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-2577

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 12, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

18.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2577: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) before 10.3.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) syslocation, (2) syscontact, or (3) sysName field of an snmpd.conf file.

Impacted Vendors

solarwinds 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/50004 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/174119 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54624 http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/ReleaseNotes/releaseNotes.htm https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77147 http://secunia.com/advisories/50004 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/174119 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54624 http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/ReleaseNotes/releaseNotes.htm https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77147

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2577 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20011

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 12, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.