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CVE-2009-4142

CVE-2009-4142

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 6.5%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 21
1st PoCDec 17
exploitation probability
6.5%top 7% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
The htmlspecialchars function in PHP before 5.2.12 does not properly handle (1) overlong UTF-8 sequences, (2) invalid Shift_JIS sequences, and (3) invalid EUC-JP sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by placing a crafted byte sequence before a special character.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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