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CVE-2009-4578

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4578 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Facileforms component for Joomla! and Mambo, allowing attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML via the Itemid parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of information disclosure or defacement. While not listed in CISA KEV, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB. Despite the availability of exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:facileforms:facileforms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-10737 · Dec 27, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0147 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

packetstormsecurity.org / 0912-exploits/joomlafacileforms-xss.txt
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/55133
exploit-db.com / exploits/10737
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/37477
Exploit