CVE-2008-6517

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-6517 · Published 25/03/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6517 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting newshowler (nick jenkin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.97%, higher than 62.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
newshowler nick_jenkin	`= 1.0.3_beta`	No fix yet

SQL injection vulnerability in NewsHOWLER 1.03 Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the news_user cookie parameter.

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