CVE-2009-5065

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in feedparser.py in Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving nested CDATA stanzas.

Affected products

Mark Pilgrim Feedparser: through 4.1; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 (+2)

References

http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=195
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00026.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44074
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-5065.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:082
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47177
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680074
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684877
http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=195
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00026.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44074
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-5065.html

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