Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3414

Title: Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-3414

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jul 19, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

9.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3414: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in swfupload.swf in SWFUpload 2.2.0.1 and earlier, as used in WordPress before 3.3.2, TinyMCE Image Manager 1.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the movieName parameter, related to the "ExternalInterface.call" function.

Impacted Vendors

wordpress 1

swfupload_project 1

tinymce 1

Reference Links

http://bot24.blogspot.ca/2013/04/swfupload-object-injectioncsrf.html http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/issues/detail?id=376 http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/ http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122399/TinyMCE-Image-Manager-1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/16/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/12 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54245 https://nealpoole.com/blog/2012/05/xss-and-csrf-via-swf-applets-swfupload-plupload/ http://bot24.blogspot.ca/2013/04/swfupload-object-injectioncsrf.html http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/issues/detail?id=376 http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/ http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122399/TinyMCE-Image-Manager-1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/16/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/12 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54245 https://nealpoole.com/blog/2012/05/xss-and-csrf-via-swf-applets-swfupload-plupload/

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-2012-3414 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37470

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 19, 2013 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.