CVE-2012-2446 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tools/local_lookup.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the group parameter in a lookup action

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tools/local_lookup.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the group parameter in a lookup action

Published Jul 9, 2012

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.06%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tools/local_lookup.php in the WebAdmin Portal in Netsweeper allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the group parameter in a lookup action.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.06% 0.01058

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01058

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 1, 2026	1.06% (0.01058)	63.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.06% (0.01058)	59.93th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.31% (0.00313)	52.24th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.17% (0.00172)	55.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.15% (0.00151)	50.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.14% (0.00145)	49.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.17% (0.00166)	51.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

http://infosec42.blogspot.com/2012/07/cve-2012-2446-cve-2012-2447-cve-2012.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/763795
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Link	Providers	Tags
http://infosec42.blogspot.com/2012/07/cve-2012-2446-cve-2012-2447-cve-2012.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/763795		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 9, 2012

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2012

Link CVE-2012-2446

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-2446

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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