CVE-2009-0817

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Protected Node module 5.x before 5.x-1.4 and 6.x before 6.x-1.5, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users with "administer site configuration" permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Password page info field, which is not properly handled by the protected_node_enterpassword function in protected_node.module.

Affected products

Drupal Protected Node Module: 5.x, 5.x-1.0, 5.x-1.2, 5.x-1.3, 5.x-1.x-dev, 6.x-1.0 (+3)

References

http://drupal.org/node/385950
http://drupal.org/node/386604
http://drupal.org/node/386606
http://lampsecurity.org/node/28
http://osvdb.org/52300
http://secunia.com/advisories/34060
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0572
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48980
http://drupal.org/node/385950
http://drupal.org/node/386604
http://drupal.org/node/386606
http://lampsecurity.org/node/28

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