CVE-2011-4809

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HM Community (com_hmcommunity) component before 1.01 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) language[], (2) university[], (3) persent[], (4) company_name[], (5) designation[], (6) music[], (7) books[], (8) movies[], (9) games[], (10) syp[], (11) ft[], and (12) fa[] parameters in a save task for a profile to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Published: 2011-12-14 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2011-4809 is rated Exploit Available (58.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.63%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.20% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2011-4809

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
18050 exploit_db edb 2011-10-31 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2011-4809

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 0.42% 1.63% +1.20%
2 2026-04-02 0.46% 0.42% -0.03%
3 2026-01-31 0.46%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2011-4809

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-2011-4809

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2011-4809

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
joomlaextensions com_hmcommunity <= 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:joomlaextensions:com_hmcommunity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2011-4809

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