CVE-2008-2852

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: 2008-06-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in CGIWrap before 4.1, when an Internet Explorer based browser is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to failure to set the charset in error messages.

Affected products

Nathan Neulinger Cgiwrap: 3.5, 3.6, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4 (+3)

References

http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/changes.html
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN45389864/index.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30765
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=8209&release_id=607349
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29811
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43176
http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/changes.html
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN45389864/index.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30765
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=8209&release_id=607349
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29811
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43176

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