CVE-2009-4168

Wp Cumulus vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

5.5%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roy Tanck tagcloud.swf, as used in the WP-Cumulus plugin before 1.23 for WordPress and the Joomulus module 2.0 and earlier for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter in a tags action. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tagcloud.swf in the WP-Cumulus Plug-in before 1.23 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter.

Affected vendor

Roytanck

Affected product

Wp Cumulus

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2009-12-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 5.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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