{"id":"CVE-2012-4954","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-4954","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:50:59.455Z","title":"The edit-profile page in Vanilla Forums before 2.1a32 allows remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary profile settings by replacing the UserID value during a man-in-the-middle attack, related to a \"parameter manipulation\" issue.","description":"The edit-profile page in Vanilla Forums before 2.1a32 allows remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary profile settings by replacing the UserID value during a man-in-the-middle attack, related to a \"parameter manipulation\" issue.","published":"2012-11-15T11:58:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:45:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.5,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["vanillaforums/vanilla","vanillaforums/vanilla forums"],"epss":{"score":0.01067,"percentile":0.64545,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.07%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/611988","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56483","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80000","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/611988","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56483","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80000","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4954","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}