CVE-2008-2070

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allows remote attackers to bypass XSS protection and inject arbitrary script or HTML via repeated, improperly-ordered "<" and ">" characters in the (1) issue parameter to scripts2/knowlegebase, (2) user parameter to scripts2/changeip, (3) search parameter to scripts2/listaccts, and other unspecified vectors.

Affected products

WebPros cPanel: 11.18, 11.18.1, 11.18.2, 11.18.3, 11.22, 11.22.1 (+1)

References

http://changelog.cpanel.net/?revision=0%3Btree=%3Btreeview=%3Bshow=html%3Bpp=25%3Bte=1314%3Bpg=2
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-May/062197.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30166
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3866
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491864/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29125
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1522/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42305
http://changelog.cpanel.net/?revision=0%3Btree=%3Btreeview=%3Bshow=html%3Bpp=25%3Bte=1314%3Bpg=2
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-May/062197.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30166
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3866

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