CVE-2009-4559 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Submitted By module 6.x before 6.x-1.3 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users, with "administer content types" privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an input string for "submitted by" text

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Submitted By module 6.x before 6.x-1.3 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users, with "administer content types" privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an input string for "submitted by" text

Published Jan 4, 2010

3.5

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.83%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Submitted By module 6.x before 6.x-1.3 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users, with "administer content types" privileges, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an input string for "submitted by" text.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.83% 0.00833

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

EPSS probability 0.00833

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 (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.83% (0.00833)	56.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.83% (0.00833)	52.69th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.16% (0.00162)	34.68th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00086)	38.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00087)	35.11th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.06% (0.01061)	52.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 19, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	51.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	49.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	28.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://drupal.org/node/520372
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35708
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51788
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://drupal.org/node/520372		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35708		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51788		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 4, 2010

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 4, 2010

Link CVE-2009-4559

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-4559

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-4559