CVE-2009-4868

medium
Published 2010-05-11 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Hitron Soft Answer Me 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the q_id parameter to the answers script (aka answers.php). NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-34501 webapps php verified text ยท 1 KB
Moudi ยท 2009-08-10

Hitron Soft Answer Me - 'answers.php' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42558/info

Hitron Soft Answer Me is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Answer Me 1.0 is vulnerable; other versions may be affected. 

http://www.example.com/answers?q_id=1>"><ScRiPt %0D%0A>alert(413587968783)%3B</ScRiPt>

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
hitronsoftanswer_me1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.