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CVE-2009-0496

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-02-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Ignite Realtime Openfire: 3.6.2

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33452
• http://www.coresecurity.com/content/openfire-multiple-vulnerabilities
• 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
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32938
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32939
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32940
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32943
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32944
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254309

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