CVE-2009-4521
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in birt-viewer/run in Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) before 2.5.0, as used in KonaKart and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the __report…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in birt-viewer/run in Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) before 2.5.0, as used in KonaKart and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the __report parameter.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.46% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 14 October 2009
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- eclipse/birt
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 3.5% on 22 September 2026 to 3.5% on 26 October 2026.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xssExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37025Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/58941
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507172/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674Exploit
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259127Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53773
- http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xssExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37025Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/58941
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507172/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36674Exploit
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259127Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53773
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.