CVE-2008-2070
The WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allows remote attackers to bypass XSS protection and…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allows remote attackers to bypass XSS protection and inject arbitrary script or HTML via repeated, improperly-ordered "<" and ">" characters in the (1) issue parameter to scripts2/knowlegebase, (2) user parameter to scripts2/changeip, (3) search parameter to scripts2/listaccts, and other unspecified vectors.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB3 entries
- cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/knowlegebase?issue' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31771webapps, phppublished 9 May 2008Verified
- cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/changeip?user' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31772webapps, phppublished 9 May 2008Verified
- cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/listaccts?search' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31773webapps, phppublished 9 May 2008Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- http://changelog.cpanel.net/?revision=0%3Btree=%3Btreeview=%3Bshow=html%3Bpp=25%3Bte=1314%3Bpg=2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- cpanel-whminterface-xss(42305) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080509 XSS and CSRF vulnerability on Cpanel 11 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1522 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 3866 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20080509 XSS and CSRF vulnerability on cPanel 11 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 29125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30166 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2067 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-2070)Record last updated .