National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5668
Original release date:12/19/2008
Last revised:01/29/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Textpattern (aka Txp CMS) 4.0.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the PATH_INFO to setup/index.php or (2) the name parameter to index.php in the comments preview section.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 27606
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://textpattern.com/weblog/310/textpattern-406-released
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080204 [DSECRG-08-008] Textpattern 4.0.5 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4786
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28793
Type: Advisory