CVE-2012-1860: Microsoft Office Web Apps

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 and SP3, SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1, and Office Web Apps 2010 Gold and SP1 do not properly check permissions for search scopes, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (data modification) by changing a parameter in a search-scope URL, aka "SharePoint Search Scope Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Web Apps: version 2010 only
• Microsoft SharePoint Server: version 2007 only; version 2010 only

Published 2012-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.