CVE-2008-0497

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in action.php in Nucleus CMS 3.31 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO, which is not quoted when processing PHP_SELF.

Affected products

Nucleus Cms: 3.31

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28680
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3593
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=66479&release_id=572117
http://www.nucleuscms.org/item/3047
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487252/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487255/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27492
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0369
http://secunia.com/advisories/28680
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3593
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=66479&release_id=572117
http://www.nucleuscms.org/item/3047

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