XSS in Drupal
CVE-2008-5996
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (56.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Drupal
- Link3 Simplenews — versions 4.6.x-1.x-dev, 4.7.x-1.0, 4.7.x-1.x-dev
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/32022 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- drupal.org/node/312944 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31377 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45407 (vdb-entry)