low
2.6
CWE
79
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2012-4037: XSS

First published: Wed Aug 15 2012(Updated: )

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web client in Transmission before 2.61 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) comment, (2) created by, or (3) name field in a torrent file.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Transmission BitTorrent<=2.60
Transmission BitTorrent=0.1
Transmission BitTorrent=0.2
Transmission BitTorrent=0.3
Transmission BitTorrent=0.4
Transmission BitTorrent=0.5
Transmission BitTorrent=0.6
Transmission BitTorrent=0.6.1
Transmission BitTorrent=0.70
Transmission BitTorrent=0.71
Transmission BitTorrent=0.72
Transmission BitTorrent=0.80
Transmission BitTorrent=0.81
Transmission BitTorrent=0.82
Transmission BitTorrent=0.90
Transmission BitTorrent=0.91
Transmission BitTorrent=0.92
Transmission BitTorrent=0.93
Transmission BitTorrent=0.94
Transmission BitTorrent=0.95
Transmission BitTorrent=0.96
Transmission BitTorrent=1.00
Transmission BitTorrent=1.01
Transmission BitTorrent=1.02
Transmission BitTorrent=1.2
Transmission BitTorrent=1.03
Transmission BitTorrent=1.04
Transmission BitTorrent=1.05
Transmission BitTorrent=1.06
Transmission BitTorrent=1.10
Transmission BitTorrent=1.11
Transmission BitTorrent=1.20
Transmission BitTorrent=1.21
Transmission BitTorrent=1.22
Transmission BitTorrent=1.30
Transmission BitTorrent=1.31
Transmission BitTorrent=1.32
Transmission BitTorrent=1.33
Transmission BitTorrent=1.34
Transmission BitTorrent=1.40
Transmission BitTorrent=1.41
Transmission BitTorrent=1.42
Transmission BitTorrent=1.50
Transmission BitTorrent=1.51
Transmission BitTorrent=1.52
Transmission BitTorrent=1.53
Transmission BitTorrent=1.54
Transmission BitTorrent=1.60
Transmission BitTorrent=1.61
Transmission BitTorrent=1.70
Transmission BitTorrent=1.71
Transmission BitTorrent=1.72
Transmission BitTorrent=1.73
Transmission BitTorrent=1.74
Transmission BitTorrent=1.75
Transmission BitTorrent=1.76
Transmission BitTorrent=1.77
Transmission BitTorrent=1.80
Transmission BitTorrent=1.81
Transmission BitTorrent=1.82
Transmission BitTorrent=1.83
Transmission BitTorrent=1.90
Transmission BitTorrent=1.91
Transmission BitTorrent=1.92
Transmission BitTorrent=1.93
Transmission BitTorrent=2.00
Transmission BitTorrent=2.01
Transmission BitTorrent=2.02
Transmission BitTorrent=2.03
Transmission BitTorrent=2.04
Transmission BitTorrent=2.10
Transmission BitTorrent=2.11
Transmission BitTorrent=2.12
Transmission BitTorrent=2.13
Transmission BitTorrent=2.20
Transmission BitTorrent=2.21
Transmission BitTorrent=2.22
Transmission BitTorrent=2.30
Transmission BitTorrent=2.31
Transmission BitTorrent=2.32
Transmission BitTorrent=2.33
Transmission BitTorrent=2.40
Transmission BitTorrent=2.41
Transmission BitTorrent=2.42
Transmission BitTorrent=2.50
Transmission BitTorrent=2.51
Transmission BitTorrent=2.52

Remedy

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4979

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