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CVE-2008-5996

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
28/01/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.

Impact

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

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.x-1.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:*:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.x-1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:4.6.x-1.x-dev:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:4.7.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:4.7.x-1.x-dev:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:4.7.x-2.x-dev:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:5.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:5.x-1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:5.x-1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:5.x-1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:5.x-1.x-dev:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:6.x-1.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:6.x-1.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:link3:simplenews:6.x-1.x-dev:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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