CVE-2008-3569

Xampp vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XAMPP 1.6.7, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to (1) iart.php and (2) ming.php.

Affected vendor

Apache Friends

Affected product

Xampp

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2008-08-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3569.
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