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CVE-2008-5164

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5164 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2. Attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'id' parameter in viewarticle.php and viewarticle2.php, and via PATH_INFO in viewarticle.php. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity with low impact on integrity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, requiring medium attack complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV), public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31975 · Jun 26, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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/43378
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493684/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29959
Exploit