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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2008-5761

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in FlatnuX CMS (aka Flatnuke3) 2008-12-11 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the mod parameter to the default URI; (2) the foto parameter to photo.php in the 05_Foto module; or (3) the name parameter in an insertrecord action to index.php in the 08_Files module, as demonstrated by injection within a SRC attribute of an IFRAME element.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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