Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package smarty  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-SMARTY-642725
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed1 Oct 2012

Introduced: 1 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-4437  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream smarty package and not the smarty package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.