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CVE-2008-5163

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5163 describes multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2, specifically within the viewarticle.php and viewarticle2.php scripts. Attackers can exploit these flaws remotely by manipulating the 'id' parameter to execute arbitrary SQL commands. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized data access, modification, or denial of service. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog and showing no active community discussion or media coverage, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, indicating a potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theratstudios:the_rat_cms:2:pre_alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31978 · Jun 26, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/4612
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43377
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493684/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29959
Exploit