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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2009-0541 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Magento 1.2.0 and 1.2.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or H…

published 2009-02-25 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0545

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Magento 1.2.0 and 1.2.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the username field in an admin/ request to index.php, possibly related to the login[username] parameter and the app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/Session.php login function; (2) the email address field in an admin/index/forgotpassword/ request to index.php, possibly related to the email parameter and the app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/IndexController.php forgotpasswordAction function; or (3) the return parameter to the default URI under downloader/.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32810)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32810 Magento 1.2 - 'downloader/index.php' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-02-24
  • EDB-32809 Magento 1.2 - '/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/IndexController.php?email' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-02-24
  • EDB-32808 Magento 1.2 - '/app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/Session.php?login['Username']' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-02-24
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33872 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-02/0257.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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