CVE-2012-1990 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric Kerweb before 3.0.1 and Kerwin before 6.0.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the evtvariablename parameter in an evts.xml action to kw.dll, (2) unspecified search fields, or (3) unspecified content-display fields

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric Kerweb before 3.0.1 and Kerwin before 6.0.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the evtvariablename parameter in an evts.xml action to kw.dll, (2) unspecified search fields, or (3) unspecified content-display fields

Published May 22, 2012

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.61%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric Kerweb before 3.0.1 and Kerwin before 6.0.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the evtvariablename parameter in an evts.xml action to kw.dll, (2) unspecified search fields, or (3) unspecified content-display fields.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.61% 0.01606

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01606

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.61% (0.01606)	75.02th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.63% (0.01625)	72.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.96% (0.00959)	74.90th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00187)	57.43th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 10, 2024	0.19% (0.00187)	56.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00187)	54.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Aug 6, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
May 5, 2022	1.96% (0.01962)	76.77th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.95% (0.01953)	76.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.95% (0.01953)	55.38th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/49041
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.phocean.net/2012/05/08/cve-2012-1990-kerwebkerwin-xss-vulnerabilities.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53409
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/49041		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.phocean.net/2012/05/08/cve-2012-1990-kerwebkerwin-xss-vulnerabilities.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53409		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 22, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Apr 2, 2012

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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