CVE-2012-4469

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Published 2012-11-30 · 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

2.6

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hashcash module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.6 and 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.2 for Drupal, when "Log failed hashcash" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid token, which is not properly handled when administrators use the Database logging module.

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
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.0`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.1`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.2`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.3`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.4`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`6.x-2.5`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`7.x-2.0`
simon_rycroft	hashcash	`7.x-2.1`
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.