$ cve CVE-2009-3748 JSON

CVE-2009-3748 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 3.5% (pctl 89)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Web Administrator in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) FileName, (2) IsolatedMessageID, (3) ServerName, (4) Dictionary, (5) Scoring, and (6) MessagePart parameters to web/msgList/viewmsg/actions/msgAnalyse.asp; the (7) Queue, (8) FileName, (9) IsolatedMessageID, and (10) ServerName parameters to actions/msgForwardToRiskFilter.asp and viewHeaders.asp in web/msgList/viewmsg/; and (11) the subject in an e-mail message that is held in a Queue.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	3.46% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2009-10-22
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
websense	personal email manager
websense	websense email security

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Websense Email Security - Cross-Site Scripting	2009-10-20

References

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