$ cve CVE-2009-4168 JSON

CVE-2009-4168 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 5.5% (pctl 93)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	5.49% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2009-12-02
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
roytanck	wp-cumulus
wordpress	wordpress

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	WordPress Plugin WP-Cumulus 1.x - 'tagcloud.swf' Cross-Site Scripting	2009-11-09

References

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