CVE-2012-5537

medium

Published 2012-12-03 · 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

6.0

Description

The Simplenews Scheduler module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.4 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with the "send scheduled newsletters" permission to inject arbitrary PHP code into the scheduling form, which is later executed by cron.

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
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	`6.x-2.0`
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	`6.x-2.1`
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	`6.x-2.2`
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	`6.x-2.3`
simplenews_scheduler_project	simplenews_scheduler	`6.x-2.x`
drupal	drupal	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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