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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2009-3701 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administration interface in Horde Application Framework before 3.3.6, Horde Grou…

published 2009-12-21 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-3674

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
4
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administration interface in Horde Application Framework before 3.3.6, Horde Groupware before 1.2.5, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to (1) phpshell.php, (2) cmdshell.php, or (3) sqlshell.php in admin/, related to the PHP_SELF variable.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-3701 updated

horde: PHP_SELF XSS vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33408)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33408 Horde 3.3.5 - '/Administration Interface admin/sqlshell.php?PATH_INFO' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-12-15
  • EDB-33407 Horde 3.3.5 - '/Administration Interface admin/cmdshell.php?PATH_INFO' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-12-15
  • EDB-33406 Horde 3.3.5 - Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-12-15
  • EDB-10512 Horde 3.3.5 - 'PHP_SELF' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-12-17
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-12/0388.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37351 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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