CVE-2009-4651

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Published 2010-02-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Webee Comments (com_webeecomment) component 1.1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 for Joomla! allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) color, (2) img, or (3) url BBCode tags in unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33638 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Jeff Channell · 2009-11-15

Joomla! Component Webee Comments 1.1/1.2 - Multiple BBCode Tags Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38204/info
 
The Joomla! Webee component is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.
 
An attacker may leverage the HTML-injection issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is viewed, and launch other attacks.
 
The attacker may exploit the SQL-injection issue to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.
 
Webee 1.1.1 is vulnerable to all these issues. Webee 1.2 is reportedly affected by the SQL-injection issue and possibly the HTML-injection issues as well.
 
[color=red;xss:expression(window.r?0:(alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83)),window.r=1))]XSS[/color]
[img]http://foo.com/fake.png"/onerror="alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))[/img]
[url="/onmouseover="alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))]XSS[/url]

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
onnogroen	com_webeecomment	`1.1.1`
onnogroen	com_webeecomment	`1.2`
onnogroen	com_webeecomment	`2.0`
joomla	joomla\!

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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