CVE-2008-2236

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in blosxom.cgi in Blosxom before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the flav parameter (flavour variable). NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Blosxom: through 2.1.1; 0.1.5, 1.0, 1.0.1, 2.0, 2.0-3, 2.0-4 (+8)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN03300113/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000073.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32074
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=630149
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31535
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45600
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN03300113/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000073.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32074
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=630149
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31535
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45600

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