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CVE-2008-5939

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
22/01/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in MODx CMS 0.9.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a JavaScript event in the username field, possibly related to snippet.ditto.php. NOTE: some sources list the id parameter as being affected, but this is probably incorrect based on the original disclosure.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.9.6.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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