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CVE-2012-5388

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wlcms-plugin.php in the White Label CMS plugin 1.5 for WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the wlcms_o_developer_name parameter in a save action to…

EXPLOIT ✓LOW 3.5EPSS 3.90%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is low and EPSS is 3.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wlcms-plugin.php in the White Label CMS plugin 1.5 for WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the wlcms_o_developer_name parameter in a save action to wp-admin/admin.php, a related issue to CVE-2012-5387.

CVSS 2.0
3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
3.90% probability · 90th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 22 October 2012
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
videousermanuals/white-label-cms
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 3.90%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 3.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-22156source ↗WordPress Plugin White Label CMS 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / Persistent Cross-Site Scriptingphp · pcsjjwebapps22 October 2012yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.