XSS in Phpwares PHP Inventory

CVE-2009-4596

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in PHP Inventory 1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sup_id parameter in a suppliers details action.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2010-01-12 · 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: 0.015 (72.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Phpwares PHP Inventory — versions 1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10370 (Exploit, exploit)
packetstormsecurity.org/0912-exploits/phpinventory-sql.txt (Exploit)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54667 (vdb-entry)