CVE-2012-2520
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft InfoPath 2007 SP2 and SP3 and 2010 SP1, Communicator 2007 R2, Lync 2010 and 2010 Attendee, SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 and SP3 and 2010 SP1, Groove Server 2010 SP1, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2, SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1, and Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string, aka "HTML Sanitization Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 34.3% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2506)
- Published
- October 9, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2506 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / groove server
- microsoft / infopath
- microsoft / infopath
- microsoft / lync
- microsoft / lync
- microsoft / office communicator
- microsoft / office web apps
- microsoft / sharepoint foundation
- microsoft / sharepoint server
- microsoft / sharepoint server
- microsoft / sharepoint server
- microsoft / sharepoint services
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55797(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027625(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027626(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027627(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027628(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027629(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-283A.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-066
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14976
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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