CVE-2009-3731

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WebWorks Help 2.0 through 5.0 in VMware vCenter 4.0 before Update 1 Build 208156; VMware Server 2.0.2; VMware ESX 4.0; VMware Lab Manager 2.x; VMware vCenter Lab Manager 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.1; VMware Stage Manager 1.x before 4.0.1; WebWorks Publisher 6.x through 8.x; WebWorks Publisher 2003; and WebWorks ePublisher 9.0.x through 9.3, 2008.1 through 2008.4, and 2009.x before 2009.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) wwhelp_entry.html, reachable through index.html and wwhsec.htm, (2) wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm, (3) wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/frameset.htm, (4) wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/scripts/switch.js, or (5) the window.opener component in wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/bookmark.htm, related to (a) unspecified parameters and (b) messages used in topic links for the bookmarking functionality.

Affected products

VMware Esx Server: 4.0
VMware Lab Manager: 2.0
VMware Server: 2.0.2
VMware Stage Manager: through 4.0; 1.0
VMware vCenter: 4.0
VMware Vcenter Lab Manager: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 4.0
VMware Vcenter Stage Manager: 1.0.1
Webworks Epublisher: 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 2008.1, 2008.2 (+4)
Webworks Help: 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
Webworks Publisher: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 2003

References

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