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CVE-2008-5026

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Microsoft SharePoint uses URLs with the same hostname and port number for a web site's primary files and individual users' uploaded files (aka attachments), which allows remote authenticated users to leverage same-origin relationships and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by uploading HTML documents.

Affected products

• Microsoft SharePoint Server: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0055.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0056.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0058.html
• http://www.pomcor.com/whitepapers/file_sharing_security.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46590
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0055.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0056.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-11/0058.html
• http://www.pomcor.com/whitepapers/file_sharing_security.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46590

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