CVE-2009-4908

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in oBlog allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) commentName, (2) commentEmail, (3) commentWeb, or (4) commentText parameter to article.php; and allow remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (5) article_id or (6) title parameter to admin/write.php, the (7) category_id or (8) category_name parameter to admin/groups.php, the (9) blogroll_id or (10) title parameter to admin/blogroll.php, or the (11) blog_name or (12) tag_line parameter to admin/settings.php.

Published: 2010-06-25 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2009-4908 is rated Exploit Available (55.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.49%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-4908

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
10379 exploit_db edb 2009-12-11 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4908

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 2026-06-15 2.65% 1.49% -1.16%
2 2026-02-23 2.06% 2.65% +0.58%
3 2025-12-15 2.06%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4908

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-2009-4908

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4908

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dootzky oblog cpe:2.3:a:dootzky:oblog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4908

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