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CVE-2009-4888

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4888 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHortail version 1.2.1, specifically within the poster.php component, affecting the nskate phortail product. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by manipulating the pseudo, email, ti, and txt parameters. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity due to its network-based attack vector and medium attack complexity, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-32844) confirms the existence of HTML injection vulnerabilities, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nskate:phortail: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
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32844 · Mar 9, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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

osvdb.org / 52502
packetstormsecurity.org / 0903-exploits/phortail-xss.txt
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/34203
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/49143
securityfocus.com / bid/34038
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0631
Vendor Advisory