CVE-2009-0404

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-0404 · Published 03/02/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-0404 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting htmlawed (bioinformatics).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
htmlawed bioinformatics	`= 1.0= 1.0.1= 1.0.2= 1.0.3= 1.0.4= 1.0.5= 1.0.6= 1.0.7= 1.0.8= 1.0.9= 1.1= 1.1.1= 1.1.2≤ 1.1.3`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Bioinformatics htmLawed 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via invalid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expressions in the style attribute, which is processed by Internet Explorer 7.

References

freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed
freshmeat.net/projects/htmlawed
osvdb.org/51650
secunia.com/advisories/33655 · Vendor Advisory
bioinformatics.org/phplabware/forum/viewtopic.php · Vendor Advisory
bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/htmLawed_README.htm
securityfocus.com/bid/33507
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48333

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