CVE-2012-4759: Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in facebook_plugin.fpi in the Facebook plug-in in Foxit Reader 5.3.1.0606 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .pdf file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.