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CVE-2008-7171

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) photo parameter to show_photo.php, (2) potd parameter to show_potd.php, or (3) the Current question field in a vote action to admin.php.

Affected products

• Yanick Bourbeau Lightweight News Portal: 1.0b

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29848
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43224
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43226
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5873
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29848
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43224
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43226
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5873

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