Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.15, and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and OTRS ITSM 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 3.0.x before 3.0.6, and 3.1.x before 3.1.6, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element or (2) UTF-7 text in an HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" META element
Published Aug 23, 2012
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.20%
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk 2.4.x before 2.4.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.15, and 3.1.x before 3.1.9, and OTRS ITSM 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 3.0.x before 3.0.6, and 3.1.x before 3.1.6, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element or (2) UTF-7 text in an HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" META element.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.1
- 2.4.2
- 2.4.3
- 2.4.4
- 2.4.5
- 2.4.6
- 2.4.7
- 2.4.8
- 2.4.9
- 2.4.10
- 2.4.11
- 2.4.12
Configuration 2
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.0.6
- 3.0.7
- 3.0.8
- 3.0.9
- 3.0.10
- 3.0.11
- 3.0.12
- 3.0.13
- 3.0.14
Configuration 3
Configuration 4
- 2.1.0
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.1.3
- 2.1.4
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.1.0
- 3.1.1
- 3.1.2
- 3.1.3
- 3.1.4
- 3.1.5
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
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 (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 4.20% (0.04195) | 90.63th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.20% (0.04195) | 89.62th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.36% (0.03362) | 86.51th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.90% (0.00904) | 83.44th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 17, 2023 | 0.91% (0.00905) | 80.93th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 17, 2023 | 0.75% (0.00753) | 78.84th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 14, 2023 | 0.80% (0.00795) | 79.33th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 11, 2023 | 0.91% (0.00911) | 80.38th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.67% (0.00669) | 76.60th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.92% (0.01917) | 78.00th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Nov 7, 2022 | 1.92% (0.01917) | 77.43th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Aug 6, 2022 | 1.96% (0.01962) | 77.45th | 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) |
References (5)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00024.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50513 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2536 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582879 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNExploitUS Government Resource
- http://www.otrs.com/en/open-source/community-news/security-advisories/security-advisory-2012-01/ x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00024.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/50513 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2536 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582879 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNExploitUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.otrs.com/en/open-source/community-news/security-advisories/security-advisory-2012-01/ | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory |
Change history (0)
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