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CVE-2008-1098

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) certain input processed by formatter/text_gedit.py (aka the gui editor formatter); (2) a page name, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when the page is successfully deleted by a victim in a DeletePage action; or (3) the destination page name for a RenamePage action, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when a victim's rename attempt fails because of a duplicate name. NOTE: the AttachFile XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0781, and the login XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0780.

Affected products

• Moinmoin: through 1.5.8

References

• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/4ede07e792dd
• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/d0152eeb4499
• http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29262
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29444
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30031
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33755
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1514
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-27.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28173
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41037
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1/

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