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CVE-2009-4521 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in birt-viewer/run in Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) before 2.5.0, as us…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2009-4487

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in birt-viewer/run in Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) before 2.5.0, as used in KonaKart and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the __report parameter.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33286)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33286 Eclipse BIRT 2.2.1 - 'run?__report' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2009-10-14
  • bugs.eclipse.org https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259127 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • antisnatchor.com http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674 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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