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CVE-2009-4681

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4681 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpDirectorySource 1.x, specifically within the search.php component, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML via the 'st' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), it requires medium attack complexity and can lead to information disclosure or defacement, but not impact availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion, with no evidence of widespread active exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpdirectorysource:phpdirectorysource:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpdirectorysource:phpdirectorysource:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9226 · Jul 21, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 45th 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 / 0907-exploits/wbd-sqlxss.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/35941
Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/9226
securityfocus.com / bid/35760