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CVE-2009-4875

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4875 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FCKeditor.Java version 2.4. Remote attackers can trigger an infinite loop by submitting a malformed request parameter containing control characters. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for a denial of service (availability impact) with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:frederico_caldeira_knabben:fckeditor.java:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0256 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

dev.fckeditor.net / ticket/3902
java.fckeditor.net / changes-report.html
secunia.com / advisories/35870
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51738
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
osvdb.org / 56060
securityfocus.com / bid/35709