CVE-2012-5992: Cisco 2000 Wireless Lan Controller

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices with software 7.2.110.0 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add administrative accounts via screens/aaa/mgmtuser_create.html or (2) insert XSS sequences via the headline parameter to screens/base/web_auth_custom.html, aka Bug ID CSCud50283.

Affected products

• Cisco 2000 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 2100 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 2500 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 4100 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 4400 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 5500 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 7500 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco 8500 Wireless Lan Controller
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software: version 7.2.110.0 only

Published 2012-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.