What is CVE-2012-1500?

CVE-2012-1500 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Greenhopper, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-02-13.

How severe is CVE-2012-1500?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Atlassian Greenhopper

CVE-2012-1500

Stored XSS vulnerability in UpdateFieldJson.jspa in JIRA 4.4.3 and GreenHopper before 5.9.8 allows an attacker to inject arbitrary script code.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-02-13 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Atlassian Greenhopper
Atlassian Jira — versions 4.4.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

web.archive.org/web/20121014055829/http://www.cloudscan.me/2012/09/cve-2012-150… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21052 (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1500?: CVE-2012-1500 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Atlassian Greenhopper, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-02-13.
How severe is CVE-2012-1500?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.