CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4459

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-12-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-12-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

Redmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page, which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

Affected configurations

• redmine redmine (<= 0.8.7) • redmine redmine 0.1.0 • redmine redmine 0.2.1 • redmine redmine 0.2.2 • redmine redmine 0.3.0 • redmine redmine 0.4.0 • redmine redmine 0.4.1 • redmine redmine 0.4.2 • redmine redmine 0.5.0 • redmine redmine 0.5.1 • redmine redmine 0.6.0 • redmine redmine 0.6.1 • redmine redmine 0.6.2 • redmine redmine 0.6.3 • redmine redmine 0.6.4 • redmine redmine 0.7.0 • redmine redmine 0.7.1 • redmine redmine 0.7.2 • redmine redmine 0.7.3 • redmine redmine 0.7.4 • redmine redmine 0.8.0 • redmine redmine 0.8.1 • redmine redmine 0.8.2 • redmine redmine 0.8.3 • redmine redmine 0.8.4 • redmine redmine 0.8.5 • redmine redmine 0.8.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References