XSS in Ohwada Xf-Section

CVE-2009-3240

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Happy Linux XF-Section module 1.12a for XOOPS allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2009-09-18 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ohwada Xf-Section — versions 1.12a
Xoops

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00425482/index.html (third-party-advisory)
linux.ohwada.jp/modules/smartsection/item.php (Vendor Advisory)
jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000062.html (third-party-advisory)