CVE-2012-5228: Tincan Phplist

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/index.php in phplist 2.10.9, 2.10.17, and possibly other versions before 2.10.19 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the testtarget parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Tincan Phplist: up to and including 2.10.18; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.1.2b only; version 1.1.3b only; version 1.1.4b only; …

Published 2012-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.