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CVE-2009-4573

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Joomulus (mod_joomulus) module 2.0 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tagcloud parameter in a tags action to (1) tagcloud_ell.swf, (2) tagcloud_eng.swf, (3) tagcloud_por.swf, (4) tagcloud_rus.swf, and possibly (5) tagcloud_jpn.swf. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Joomlabear — MOD Joomulus

CWEs

References

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