CVE-2009-3493
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Zenas PaoBacheca Guestbook 2.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Zenas PaoBacheca Guestbook 2.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to (1) scrivi.php and (2) index.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- PaoBacheca 2.1 - 'index.php' URI Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34453webapps, phppublished 16 Sept 2009Verified
- PaoBacheca 2.1 - 'scrivi.php' URI Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34454webapps, phppublished 16 Sept 2009Verified
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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)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (11 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
References5
- paobacheca-scrivi-index-xss(53323) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 58163 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/0909-exploits/paobacheca-xss.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36741 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 58164 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2009-3475 (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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