CVE-2009-4348 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Harold Bakker's NewsScript (HB-NS) 1.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the topic parameter in a topic action, a different vector than CVE-2006-2146

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Harold Bakker's NewsScript (HB-NS) 1.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the topic parameter in a topic action, a different vector than CVE-2006-2146

Published Dec 17, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.87%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Harold Bakker's NewsScript (HB-NS) 1.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the topic parameter in a topic action, a different vector than CVE-2006-2146.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.87% 0.00871

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00871

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.87% (0.00871)	57.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.87% (0.00871)	53.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.26% (0.00263)	47.68th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00160)	53.87th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 28, 2024	0.16% (0.00160)	52.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00160)	50.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/37792
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10466
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/37792		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10466		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 17, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 17, 2009

Link CVE-2009-4348

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-4348

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-4348