CVE-2009-4785 — SQL injection vulnerability in the Quick News (com_quicknews) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the newsid parameter in a view_item action to index.php

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HIGH

SQL injection vulnerability in the Quick News (com_quicknews) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the newsid parameter in a view_item action to index.php

Published Apr 21, 2010

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.08%

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the Quick News (com_quicknews) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the newsid parameter in a view_item action to index.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.08% 0.01084

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01084

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.08% (0.01084)	64.02th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.95% (0.00950)	56.49th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.28% (0.00279)	49.23th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.07% (0.00068)	32.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.14% (0.00136)	48.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.11% (0.00112)	43.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.10% (0.00102)	40.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.07% (0.00068)	27.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.99% (0.00986)	37.57th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 9, 2022	0.99% (0.00986)	35.83th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.99% (0.00986)	33.83th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.99% (0.00986)	17.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-89

SQL Injection

References (2)

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0911-exploits/joomla-quicknews.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37161
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0911-exploits/joomla-quicknews.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37161		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 21, 2010

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Apr 21, 2010

Link CVE-2009-4785

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-4785

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-4785