CVE-2008-5942

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: 2009-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx before 0.9.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the preserveUrls function and (2) "username input." NOTE: vector 2 may be related to CVE-2008-5939.

Affected products

Modxcms: through 0.9.6.2; 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2.1, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.6.1

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN10170564/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000003.html
http://svn.modxcms.com/svn/tattoo/tattoo/releases/0.9.6.3/install/changelog.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33184
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48184
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN10170564/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000003.html
http://svn.modxcms.com/svn/tattoo/tattoo/releases/0.9.6.3/install/changelog.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33184
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48184

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