CVE-2009-3493

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Zenas PaoBacheca Guestbook 2.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to (1) scrivi.php and (2) index.php.

Published: 2009-09-30 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-3493 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.42%). 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-3493

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
34454 exploit_db edb 2009-09-16 Exploit-DB ↗
34453 exploit_db edb 2009-09-16 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-3493

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-24 1.58% 1.42% -0.16%
2 2025-07-29 1.47% 1.58% +0.11%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.47% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-3493

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-3493

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-3493

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
zenas paobacheca_guestbook 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:zenas:paobacheca_guestbook:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-3493

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