National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6208
Original release date:02/20/2009
Last revised:02/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in submitnews.php in e107 CMS 0.7.11 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) author_name, (2) itemtitle, and (3) item parameters. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
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: XF
Name: e107-submitnews-xss(42248)
External Source: BID
Name: 28982
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.juniper.net/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28982.html