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CVE-2009-4233

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4233 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the YJ Whois component (versions 1.0x and 1.5.x) for Joomla!, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts via the domain parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:youjoomla:yj_whois:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:youjoomla:yj_whois:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0102 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

extensions.joomla.org / extensions/external-contents/domain-search/5774
secunia.com / advisories/37525
Vendor Advisory
youjoomla.com / joomla_support/yj-whois-module/4950-xss-security-patch-yj-whois.html