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CVE-2008-4542
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES162, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES56, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8 allows…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES162, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES56, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by entering it in the database (aka data store).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- cisco-unityserver-stored-data-xss(45744) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=127 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1021012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 32207 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2771 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20081008 VoIPshield Reported Vulnerabilities in Cisco Unity Server (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_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-2008-4523 (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-2008-4542)Record last updated .