CVE-2012-1652

low

Published 2012-09-19 · 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 the Hierarchical Select module 6.x-3.x before 6.x-3.8 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with administer taxonomy permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "the vocabulary's help text."

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
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.0`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.1`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.2`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.3`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.4`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.5`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.6`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.7`
wim_leers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.x`
drupal	drupal	`-`
wimleers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.0`
wimleers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.1`
wimleers	hierarchical_select	`6.x-3.x`

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.