National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5399
Original release date:12/10/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the listonlineusers (aka "Who's online") component in mvnForum before 1.2.1 GA allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 32605
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081203 [SVRT-06-08] MULTI SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN MVNFORUM
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewthread_thread,4361
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4699
External Source: MISC
Name: http://security.bkis.vn/?p=286
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32931
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50403