CVE-2008-5996

LOW 3.5CVE-2008-5996 · Published 28/01/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5996 is a LOW (CVSS 3.5) vulnerability affecting simplenews (link3).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.84%, higher than 58.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simplenews link3	`= 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≤ 5.x-1.4≤ 6.x-1.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

drupal.org/node/312944 · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/32022 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/31377 · Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45407

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