CVE-2008-6972

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK) 5.x through 5.x-1.8 allow remote authenticated users with "administer content" permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) "field label," (2) "help text," or (3) "allowed values" settings.

Affected products

Karen Stevenson Cck: 5.x-1.0-beta, 5.x-1.1, 5.x-1.2, 5.x-1.3, 5.x-1.7, 5.x-1.x-dev
Yves Chedemois Cck: 5.x-1.4, 5.x-1.5, 5.x-1.6, 5.x-1.6-1, 5.x-1.8

References

http://drupal.org/node/304093
http://osvdb.org/47929
http://secunia.com/advisories/31757
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31027
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44915
http://drupal.org/node/304093
http://osvdb.org/47929
http://secunia.com/advisories/31757
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31027
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44915

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