CVE-2009-4521

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in birt-viewer/run in Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) before 2.5.0, as used in KonaKart and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the __report parameter.

Affected products

eclipse Birt: through 2.3.2

References

http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss
http://secunia.com/advisories/37025
http://www.osvdb.org/58941
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507172/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259127
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53773
http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss
http://secunia.com/advisories/37025
http://www.osvdb.org/58941
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507172/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674

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