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CVE-2009-4168

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4168 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Roy Tanck tagcloud.swf component, affecting the WP-Cumulus plugin for WordPress (versions prior to 1.23) and the Joomulus module for Joomla! (versions 2.0 and earlier). This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'tagcloud' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity but not authentication, and could lead to information disclosure or defacement. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roytanck:wp-cumulus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roytanck:wp-cumulus:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roytanck:wp-cumulus:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roytanck:wp-cumulus:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roytanck:wp-cumulus:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33371 · Nov 9, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0549 is in the 90th 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

packetstormsecurity.org / 1001-exploits/joomlajvclouds-xss.txt
secunia.com / advisories/37483
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38161
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54397
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/55156
websecurity.com.ua / 3665
Exploit
websecurity.com.ua / 3789
websecurity.com.ua / 3801
websecurity.com.ua / 3839
roytanck.com / 2009/11/15/wp-cumulus-updated-to-address-yet-another-security-issue
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/508071/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/508606/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/508833/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/37100
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/37479
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3322
Vendor Advisory