CVE-2009-4157

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

02/12/2009

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in index.php in the ProofReader (com_proofreader) component 1.0 RC9 and earlier for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URI, which is not properly handled in (1) 404 or (2) error pages.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:joomlatune:com_proofreader::rc9::::::*		1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:joomlatune:com_proofreader:1.0:rc6::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2009-4157

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools