CVE-2009-1408

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in webSPELL 4.2.0c allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via Javascript events such as onmouseover in nested BBcode tags, as demonstrated using (1) email, (2) img, and (3) url tags.

Affected products

Webspell: 4.2.0c

References

http://osvdb.org/53782
http://secunia.com/advisories/34764
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502732/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34595
http://www.webspell.org/index.php?site=files&file=25
http://www.webspell.org/index.php?site=news_comments&newsID=126&lang=uk
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49937
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8453
http://osvdb.org/53782
http://secunia.com/advisories/34764
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502732/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34595

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