CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5996

3.5 LOW Published 2009-01-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-01-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

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.

Affected configurations

• link3 simplenews (<= 5.x-1.4) • link3 simplenews (<= 6.x-1.0) • link3 simplenews 4.6.x-1.x-dev • link3 simplenews 4.7.x-1.0 • link3 simplenews 4.7.x-1.x-dev • link3 simplenews 4.7.x-2.x-dev • link3 simplenews 5.x-1.0 • link3 simplenews 5.x-1.1 • link3 simplenews 5.x-1.2 • link3 simplenews 5.x-1.3 • link3 simplenews 5.x-1.x-dev • link3 simplenews 6.x-1.0 • link3 simplenews 6.x-1.x-dev

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References