CVE-2009-0541
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…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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/.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Magento 1.2 - '/app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/Session.php?login['Username']' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32808webapps, phppublished 24 Feb 2009Verified
- Magento 1.2 - '/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/IndexController.php?email' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32809webapps, phppublished 24 Feb 2009Verified
- Magento 1.2 - 'downloader/index.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32810webapps, phppublished 24 Feb 2009Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 1021746 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- magento-login-xss(48876) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- magento-forgotpasswordaction-xss(48877) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 33872 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- magneto-downloader-xss(48878) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 34000 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20090223 Magento Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory - SOS-09-002 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-0545 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-0541)Record last updated .