CVE-2008-7242

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1 allo remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) search, (2) "a," (3) messagesubject, and (4) messagebody parameters to certain pages as reachable from manager/index.php; (5) highlight, (6) id, (7) email, (8) name, and (9) parent parameters to index.php; and the (10) docgrp and (11) moreResultsPage parameters to index-ajax.php.

Affected products

Modxcms: 0.9.6.1, 0.9.6.1-p1

References

http://osvdb.org/41232
http://secunia.com/advisories/28840
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375
http://osvdb.org/41232
http://secunia.com/advisories/28840
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375

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