CVE-2019-12512

MEDIUM

NETGEAR Nighthawk X10-R900 < 1.0.4.24 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via X-Forwarded-For Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In NETGEAR Nighthawk X10-R900 prior to 1.0.4.24, an attacker may execute stored XSS attacks against this device by supplying a malicious X-Forwarded-For header while performing an incorrect login attempt. The value supplied by this header will be inserted into administrative logs, found at Advanced settings->Administration->Logs, and may trigger when the page is viewed. Although this value is inserted into a textarea tag, the attack simply needs to supply a closing textarea tag.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.ise.io/casestudies/sohopelessly-broken-2-0/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
netgear/nighthawk_x10-r9000_firmware < 1.0.4.24
Published Feb 24, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026