Servers and applications
CVE-2009-1844
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Drupal 5.x before 5.18 and 6.x before 6.12 allow (1) remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted UTF-8 byte sequences that are treated as UTF-7 by Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which are not properly handled in the "HTML exports of books" feature; and (2) allow remote authenticated users with administer…
- Severity
- Low 3.5
- Published
- 1 Jun 2009
- Last changed
- 16 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Exploit chance
- 0.9% in the next 30 daysHigher than 58% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 12 Nov 2026
- Weakness
- Cross-site scripting (CWE-79)
- Attack
- Over the network · Needs a login
- Attacker can
- Change some data
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N- Sources
- NVD
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Drupal 5.x before 5.18 and 6.x before 6.12 allow (1) remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted UTF-8 byte sequences that are treated as UTF-7 by Internet Explorer 6 and 7, which are not properly handled in the "HTML exports of books" feature; and (2) allow remote authenticated users with administer taxonomy permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the help text of an arbitrary vocabulary. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1575.
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
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DrupalServers and applications · cpe:a:drupal:drupal |
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