CVE-2008-5996 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2008-5996

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before...

Vulnerability Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

simplenews
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 4.6.x-1.x-dev, 4.7.x-1.0, 4.7.x-1.x-dev, 4.7.x-2.x-dev, 5.x-1.0, 5.x-1.1, 5.x-1.2, 5.x-1.3, 5.x-1.x-dev, 6.x-1.0, 6.x-1.x-dev

Timeline

Official Publish: January 28th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.