CVE-2012-1632

low

Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in password_policy.admin.inc in the Password Policy module before 6.x-1.4 and 7.x-1.0 beta3 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with administer policies permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
erik_webb	password_policy	`{"endIncluding":"6.x-1.3"}`
erik_webb	password_policy	`5.x-1.0`
erik_webb	password_policy	`5.x-1.x`
erik_webb	password_policy	`6.x-1.0`
erik_webb	password_policy	`6.x-1.1`
erik_webb	password_policy	`6.x-1.2`
erik_webb	password_policy	`6.x-1.x`
erik_webb	password_policy	`7.x-1.0`
drupal	drupal	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.