National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4459

Overview

Redmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page, which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: redmine-title-xss(54947)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54947

External Source: BID

Name: 37425

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37425

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 10554

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10554