CVE-2009-4255

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-4255 · Published 10/12/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-4255 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting you!hostit! (youjoomla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 64.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
you!hostit! youjoomla	`= 1.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the You!Hostit! template 1.0.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the created_by_alias parameter in index.php.

References

secunia.com/advisories/37601 · Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com/exploits/10301 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54570

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