CVE-2009-0496
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Ignite Realtime Openfire 3.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) log parameter to (a) logviewer.jsp and (b) log.jsp; (2) search parameter to (c) group-summary.jsp; (3) username parameter to (d) user-properties.jsp; (4) logDir, (5) maxTotalSize, (6) maxFileSize, (7) maxDays, and (8) logTimeout parameters to (e) audit-policy.jsp; (9) propName parameter to (f) server-properties.jsp; and the (10) roomconfig_roomname and (11) roomconfig_roomdesc parameters to (g) muc-room-edit-form.jsp. NOTE: this can be leveraged for arbitrary code execution by using XSS to upload a malicious plugin.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0500)
- Published
- February 10, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0500 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ignite realtime / openfire
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33452(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/openfire-multiple-vulnerabilities(Exploit)
- http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-1506
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499880/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32935
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32937(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32938(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32939
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32940(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32943
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32944
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254309
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47834
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47835
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47845
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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