CVE-2009-2079

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrative page interface in Taxonomy manager 5.x before 5.x-1.2 and 6.x before 6.x-1.1, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with administer taxonomy privileges or the ability to use free tagging to add taxonomy terms, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) vocabulary names, (2) synonyms, and (3) term names.

Affected products

Drupal Taxonomy Manager: 5.x-1.0, 5.x-1.1, 6.x-1.0, 6.x-1.0-beta1, 6.x-1.0-beta2

References

http://drupal.org/node/487602
http://drupal.org/node/487620
http://drupal.org/node/487818
http://lampsecurity.org/drupal-6-taxonomy-manager-xss-vulnerability
http://secunia.com/advisories/35391
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35286
http://drupal.org/node/487602
http://drupal.org/node/487620
http://drupal.org/node/487818
http://lampsecurity.org/drupal-6-taxonomy-manager-xss-vulnerability
http://secunia.com/advisories/35391
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35286

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