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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2070 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://changelog.cpanel.net/?revision=0%3Btree=%3Btreeview=%3Bshow=html%3Bpp=25%3Bte=1314%3Bpg=2 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-May/062197.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30166 CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3866 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491864/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29125 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1522/references CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42305 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2070
NVD Published Date:
05/12/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE