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CVE-2009-4168
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roy Tanck tagcloud.swf, as used in the WP-Cumulus plugin before 1.23 for WordPress and the…
Medium4.3EPSS 5.5%
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (16)
- 20091225 Vulnerability in Joomulus for Joomla (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- joomulus-tagcloud-xss(55156) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3665/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20100108 Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in JVClouds3D for Joomla (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3801/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20091124 Vulnerabilities in WP-Cumulus for WordPress (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 37483 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3322 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 38161 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 37100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- wpcumulus-tagcloud-xss(54397) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 37479 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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