CVE-2008-5995

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: 2009-01-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the freeCap CAPTCHA (sr_freecap) extension before 1.0.4 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

TYPO3 Freecap Captcha Extension: through 1.0.3; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31946
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/sr_freecap/1.0.4/
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080924-2/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31370
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45379
http://secunia.com/advisories/31946
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/sr_freecap/1.0.4/
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080924-2/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31370
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45379

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