THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4918
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4918

Sonicos Enhanced vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
6.4%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SonicWALL SonicOS Enhanced before 4.0.1.1, as used in SonicWALL Pro 2040 and TZ 180 and 190, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into arbitrary web sites via a URL to a site that is blocked based on content filtering, which is not properly handled in the CFS block page, aka "universal website hijacking."
Affected vendor
Sonicwall
Affected product
Sonicos Enhanced
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2008-11-04

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 6.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4918

  • Confirm whether Sonicwall Sonicos Enhanced is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4918.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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