CVE-2009-4168

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55156

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54397

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3322

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37479

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508833/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508606/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508071/100/0/threaded

http://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/

http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/

http://websecurity.com.ua/3801/

http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/

http://secunia.com/advisories/38161

http://secunia.com/advisories/37483

http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-12-02

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03818