CVE-2008-1972

medium

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the user account creation feature in Exponent CMS 0.96.6-GA20071003 and earlier, when the Allow Registration? configuration option is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) username, (2) firstname, (3) lastname, and (4) e-mail address fields. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41878

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28834

http://www.exponentcms.org/index.php?action=view&id=64&module=newsmodule&src=%40random44fe03276195

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=592961&group_id=118524

http://secunia.com/advisories/29875

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-04-27

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00329