CVE-2009-0496

Published: Feb 10, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-79

4.3MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Ignite Realtime Openfire 3.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) log parameter to (a) logviewer.jsp and (b) log.jsp; (2) search parameter to (c) group-summary.jsp; (3) username parameter to (d) user-properties.jsp; (4) logDir, (5) maxTotalSize, (6) maxFileSize, (7) maxDays, and (8) logTimeout parameters to (e) audit-policy.jsp; (9) propName parameter to (f) server-properties.jsp; and the (10) roomconfig_roomname and (11) roomconfig_roomdesc parameters to (g) muc-room-edit-form.jsp. NOTE: this can be leveraged for arbitrary code execution by using XSS to upload a malicious plugin.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:MAccess Complexity

Medium

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

ignite realtime

oss-projectaka openfire

openfireOn-prem

Communications / messaging-chat

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Execution

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References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254309

bugs.gentoo.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32943

securityfocus.com

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47835

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

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