CVE-2008-5917

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: yes
Published: 2009-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the XSS filter (framework/Text_Filter/Filter/xss.php) in Horde Application Framework 3.2.2 and 3.3, when Internet Explorer is being used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors related to style attributes.

Affected products

Horde Application Framework: 3.2.2, 3.3

References

http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/framework/Text_Filter/Filter/xss.php?r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2008/000462.html
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2008/000464.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
http://secunia.com/advisories/34609
http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/framework/Text_Filter/Filter/xss.php?r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2008/000462.html
http://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2008/000464.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
http://secunia.com/advisories/34609

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