CVE-2012-3999 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Sticky Notes 0.3.09062012.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter

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MEDIUM

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Sticky Notes 0.3.09062012.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter

Published Jul 12, 2012

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.35%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/login.php in Sticky Notes 0.3.09062012.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.35% 0.01351

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

EPSS probability 0.01351

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.35% (0.01351)	70.50th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.35% (0.01351)	67.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.22% (0.00225)	43.24th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.13% (0.00132)	49.84th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 2, 2023	0.13% (0.00132)	46.95th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00140)	47.84th	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)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77138
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://gitorious.org/sticky-notes/sticky-notes/merge_requests/2
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77138		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://gitorious.org/sticky-notes/sticky-notes/merge_requests/2		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 12, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jul 12, 2012

Link CVE-2012-3999

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-3999

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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