CVE-2012-4974: Laytontechnology Helpbox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Layton Helpbox 4.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to change the login context and gain privileges via a modified (1) loggedinenduser, (2) loggedinendusername, (3) loggedinuserusergroup, (4) loggedinuser, or (5) loggedinusername cookie.

Affected products

Published 2012-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.