National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4168
Original release date:12/02/2009
Last revised:03/10/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: joomulus-tagcloud-xss(55156)
External Source: XF
Name: wpcumulus-tagcloud-xss(54397)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3322
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 37479
External Source: BID
Name: 37100
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20100108 Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in JVClouds3D for Joomla
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20091225 Vulnerability in Joomulus for Joomla
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20091124 Vulnerabilities in WP-Cumulus for WordPress
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3801/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3665/
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38161
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37483
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)