CVE-2009-3368
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hotel Booking Reservation System (aka HBS or com_hbssearch) component for Joomla! allows…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hotel Booking Reservation System (aka HBS or com_hbssearch) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the adult parameter in a showhoteldetails action to index.php.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Joomla! Component Hotel Booking System - Cross-Site Scripting / SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9648webapps, phppublished 11 Sept 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9648 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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)
- 1.5% · top 25% 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
5
- 33215 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 9648 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36380 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=142 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20090914 [ECHO_ADV_111$2009] Joomla Hotel Booking System Component XSS/SQL Injection Multiple Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2009-3350 (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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