CVE-2009-0404

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Bioinformatics htmLawed 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via invalid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expressions in the style attribute, which is processed by Internet Explorer 7.

Affected products

Bioinformatics Htmlawed: through 1.1.3; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+7)

References

http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293026
http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293090
http://osvdb.org/51650
http://secunia.com/advisories/33655
http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/forum/viewtopic.php?id=85
http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/htmLawed_README.htm#s4.3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33507
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48333
http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293026
http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed/?branch_id=74760&release_id=293090
http://osvdb.org/51650
http://secunia.com/advisories/33655

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