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CVE-2009-2890

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2890 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the results.php component of PHP Scripts Now Riddles, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the searchquery parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

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

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
3.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-34902 · Aug 20, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 80th 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/riddledepot-sqlxss.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/35932
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51874
osvdb.org / 56124