CVE-2008-7242

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2008-7242 · Published 17/09/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-7242 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting modxcms (modxcms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
modxcms modxcms	`= 0.9.6.1`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1 allo remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) search, (2) "a," (3) messagesubject, and (4) messagebody parameters to certain pages as reachable from manager/index.php; (5) highlight, (6) id, (7) email, (8) name, and (9) parent parameters to index.php; and the (10) docgrp and (11) moreResultsPage parameters to index-ajax.php.

References

osvdb.org/41232
secunia.com/advisories/28840 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/27672 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

modxcms

= 0.9.6.1

No fix yet

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