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CVE-2009-2937

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2937 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Planet 2.0 and Planet Venus, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML through the SRC attribute of an IMG element within a feed. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium complexity attack that requires network access but no authentication, primarily impacting integrity by allowing arbitrary script execution. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit for HTML injection in Planet 2.0 is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:intertwingly:planet:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:intertwingly:planet_venus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33219 · Sep 11, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0450 is in the 88th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2937

planet: Insufficient escaping of input feeds

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
intertwingly.net / blog/2009/09/09/Venus-Updates
Patch
lists.planetplanet.org / archives/devel/2009-September/001999.html
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/36636
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36766
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00504.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00525.html
securityfocus.com / bid/36392
Exploit