CVE-2008-6283

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Subtext 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment, related to "the feature which converts URLs to anchor tags."

Affected products

Subtextproject Subtext: 2.0

References

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/27/subtext-2.1-security-update.aspx
http://osvdb.org/50235
http://secunia.com/advisories/32914
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=643458&group_id=137896
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32513
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46937
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/27/subtext-2.1-security-update.aspx
http://osvdb.org/50235
http://secunia.com/advisories/32914
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=643458&group_id=137896
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32513
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46937

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