CVE-2008-2236

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-2236 · Published 03/10/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2236 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting blosxom (blosxom).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 69.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
blosxom blosxom	`= 0.1.5= 1.0= 1.0.1= 2.0= 2.0-3= 2.0-4= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.5= 2.0.6= 2.0.7= 2.0.8= 2.0.9= 2.1.0≤ 2.1.1`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in blosxom.cgi in Blosxom before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the flav parameter (flavour variable). NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN03300113/index.html
jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000073.html
secunia.com/advisories/32074 · Vendor Advisory
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php
securityfocus.com/bid/31535
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45600

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