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CVE-2009-2889

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2889 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the index.php file of PHP Scripts Now Hangman, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML through the 'letters' parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and no authentication required, with a potential impact of information disclosure or defacement. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpscriptsnow:hangman:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-34771 · Jul 21, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.org / 0907-exploits/tophangman-sqlxss.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/35888
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51883
osvdb.org / 56074