CVE-2008-4918
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,…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 6.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- SonicWALL - Content Filtering Blocked Site Error Page Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32552remote, hardwarepublished 30 Oct 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
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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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% 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
15
- 20081104 Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] Universal Website Hijacking by Exploiting Firewall Content Filtering Features + SonicWALL firewalls 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081031 Universal Website Hijacking by Exploiting Firewall Content Filtering Features + SonicWALL firewalls 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2970 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20081030 ZDI-08-070: SonicWALL Content-Filtering Universal Script Injection Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 31998 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-070/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32498 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20081031 Re: Universal Website Hijacking by Exploiting Firewall Content Filtering Features + SonicWALL firewalls 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081105 Re: Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] Universal Website Hijacking by Exploiting Firewall Content Filtering Features + SonicWALL firewalls 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4556 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-070 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/new-technique-to-perform-universal-website-hijacking/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/SonicOS_Enhanced_4.0.1.1_Release_Notes.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- sonicwall-content-filtering-xss(46232) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20081101 Re: Universal Website Hijacking by Exploiting Firewall Content Filtering Features + SonicWALL firewalls 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2008-4897 (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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