Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2009-4042

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4042 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RootCandy theme for Drupal, specifically versions 6.x before 6.x-1.5. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML through a crafted URI. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.x-1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marek_sotak:rootcandy:6.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.x-1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marek_sotak:rootcandy:6.x-1.0:alpha_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.x-1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marek_sotak:rootcandy:6.x-1.0:alpha_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.x-1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marek_sotak:rootcandy:6.x-1.0:beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.x-1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:marek_sotak:rootcandy:6.x-1.0:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

drupal.org / node/629894
Patch
drupal.org / node/630168
Patch
osvdb.org / 59914
secunia.com / advisories/37334
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54245
securityfocus.com / bid/36998
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3210
Vendor Advisory