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CVE-2008-6299
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! 1.5.7 and earlier allow remote authenticated users with certain privileges…
Low3.5EPSS 1.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! 1.5.7 and earlier allow remote authenticated users with certain privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the title and description parameters to the com_weblinks module and (2) unspecified vectors in the com_content module related to "article submission."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/284-20081102-core-comweblinks-xss-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32263 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/283-20081101-core-comcontent-xss-vulnerability.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3104 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32622 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- weblinks-title-description-xss(46523) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5219-joomla-158-released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2008-6269 (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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