CVE-2009-4168

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roy Tanck tagcloud.swf, as used in the WP-Cumulus plugin before 1.23 for WordPress and the Joomulus module 2.0 and earlier for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter in a tags action. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tagcloud.swf in the WP-Cumulus Plug-in before 1.23 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter.

Affected products

Roytanck Wp-Cumulus: through 1.22; 1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 1.2.1, 1.03, 1.04 (+12)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/37483
http://secunia.com/advisories/38161
http://websecurity.com.ua/3665/
http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/
http://websecurity.com.ua/3801/
http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/
http://www.roytanck.com/2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508071/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508606/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508833/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37100

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