CVE-2009-4168
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.
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
- 5.5% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-4138)
- Published
- December 2, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-4138 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- roytanck / wp-cumulus
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37483(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38161
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3665/(Exploit)
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3801/
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/
- http://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508071/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508606/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508833/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37100(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37479
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3322(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54397
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55156
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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