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CVE-2008-6283
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Subtext 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment,…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.2%
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Subtext 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment, related to "the feature which converts URLs to anchor tags."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- 32914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/27/subtext-2.1-security-update.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32513 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 50235 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- subtext-anchortag-xss(46937) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=643458&group_id=137896 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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