CVE-2009-4168

CVE Descriptions

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.

CVE Informations

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID	Weakness Name	Source
CWE-79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

Metrics

Metrics	Score	Severity	CVSS Vector	Source
V2	4.3		AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N	nvd@nist.gov

EPSS

EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

EPSS Score

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	12.33%	–	–
2022-02-13	–	–	12.33%	–	–
2022-04-03	–	–	12.33%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	14.47%	–
2023-03-19	–	–	–	13.75%	–
2023-07-30	–	–	–	16.85%	–
2023-11-12	–	–	–	16.85%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	13.5%	–
2024-08-25	–	–	–	16.11%	–
2024-10-06	–	–	–	16.85%	–
2024-12-22	–	–	–	49.68%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	49.68%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	3.82%
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	3.82,%

EPSS Percentile

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

EPSS First.org

Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	89%
2022-02-13	9%
2022-04-03	95%
2023-03-12	95%
2023-03-19	95%
2023-07-30	95%
2023-11-12	96%
2024-06-02	96%
2024-08-25	96%
2024-10-06	96%
2024-12-22	98%
2025-01-19	98%
2025-03-18	87%
2025-03-18	87%

Exploit information

Exploit Database EDB-ID : 33371

Publication date : 2009-11-08 23h00 +00:00
Author : MustLive
EDB Verified : Yes

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37100/info The WP-Cumulus plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. Versions prior to WP-Cumulus 1.23 are vulnerable. http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-cumulus/tagcloud.swf?mode=tags&tagcloud=%3Ctags%3E%3Ca+href='javascript:alert(document.cookie)'+style='font-size:+40pt'%3EClick%20me%3C/a%3E%3C/tags%3E