CVE-2009-2947

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Xapian Omega before 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified CGI parameter values, which are sometimes included in exception messages.

Affected products

Xapian Omega: through 1.0.15; 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+25)

References

http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2009-September/007115.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36674
http://secunia.com/advisories/36693
http://svn.xapian.org/%2Acheckout%2A/tags/1.0.16/xapian-applications/omega/NEWS
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1882
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36317
http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2009-September/007115.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36674
http://secunia.com/advisories/36693
http://svn.xapian.org/%2Acheckout%2A/tags/1.0.16/xapian-applications/omega/NEWS
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1882
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36317

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