CVE-2012-5837

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Web Developer Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 executes script with chrome privileges, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79 CWE-94

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Nov 21, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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