CVE-2008-5996

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% 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 Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.

Affected products

Link3 Simplenews: through 5.x-1.4; through 6.x-1.0; 4.6.x-1.x-dev, 4.7.x-1.0, 4.7.x-1.x-dev, 4.7.x-2.x-dev, 5.x-1.0, 5.x-1.1 (+6)

References

http://drupal.org/node/312944
http://secunia.com/advisories/32022
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31377
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45407
http://drupal.org/node/312944
http://secunia.com/advisories/32022
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31377
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45407

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