CVE-2008-1972

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the user account creation feature in Exponent CMS 0.96.6-GA20071003 and earlier, when the Allow Registration? configuration option is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) username, (2) firstname, (3) lastname, and (4) e-mail address fields. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Oicgroup Exponent Cms: through 0.96.6-ga20071003; 0.94, 0.95, 0.96.1, 0.96.3, 0.96.4, 0.96.5-rc1 (+2)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29875
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592961&group_id=118524
http://www.exponentcms.org/index.php?action=view&id=64&module=newsmodule&src=%40random44fe03276195
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28834
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41878
http://secunia.com/advisories/29875
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592961&group_id=118524
http://www.exponentcms.org/index.php?action=view&id=64&module=newsmodule&src=%40random44fe03276195
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28834
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41878

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