CVE-2008-5808

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Six Apart Movable Type Enterprise (MTE) 1.x before 1.56; Movable Type (MT) 3.x before 3.38; and Movable Type, Movable Type Open Source (MTOS), and Movable Type Enterprise 4.x before 4.23 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, possibly related to "application management."

Affected products

Six Apart Movable Type: 4, 4-unknown, 4.20, 4.20-unknown
Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type: 1.00, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+16)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN02216739/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000067.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32935
http://www.movabletype.jp/blog/_movable_type_423.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32604
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47019
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN02216739/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000067.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32935
http://www.movabletype.jp/blog/_movable_type_423.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32604
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47019

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