CVE-2009-2079
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrative page interface in Taxonomy manager 5.x before 5.x-1.2 and 6.x before…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrative page interface in Taxonomy manager 5.x before 5.x-1.2 and 6.x before 6.x-1.1, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with administer taxonomy privileges or the ability to use free tagging to add taxonomy terms, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) vocabulary names, (2) synonyms, and (3) term names.
Timeline
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By mitre
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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://drupal.org/node/487602 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://lampsecurity.org/drupal-6-taxonomy-manager-xss-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://drupal.org/node/487620 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 35391 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35286 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://drupal.org/node/487818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2009-2075 (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-2009-2079)Record last updated .