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CVE-2008-5305

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in TWiki before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code via the %SEARCH{}% variable.

Affected products

• Twiki: through 4.2.3; 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+6)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33040
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021352
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2008-5305
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32668
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3381
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33040
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021352
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2008-5305
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32668
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3381

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