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CVE-2009-4579

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Artist avenue (com_artistavenue) component for Joomla! and Mambo allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Itemid parameter to index.php.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Joomla — COM Artistavenue

CWEs

References

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