CVE-2008-5845

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Six Apart Movable Type (MT) before 4.23 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) MTEntryAuthorUsername, (2) MTAuthorDisplayName, (3) MTEntryAuthorDisplayName, or (4) MTCommenterName field in a Profile View template; a (5) listing screen or (6) edit screen in the CMS app; (7) a TrackBack title, related to the HTML sanitization library; or (8) a user archive name (aka archive title) on a published Community Blog template.

Affected products

Six Apart Ltd. Movable Type: through 4.21; 3.0d, 3.1, 3.01d, 3.2, 3.3, 3.11 (+10)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN45658190/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000031.html
http://www.movabletype.org/mt_423_change_log.html
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN45658190/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000031.html
http://www.movabletype.org/mt_423_change_log.html

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