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CVE-2008-5221

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5221 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in wPortfolio 0.3 and earlier, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to change the administrator password. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this flaw is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of the affected application. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of widespread community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wportfolio:wportfolio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wportfolio:wportfolio:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-7170 · Nov 20, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0255 is in the 70th 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/4631
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46772
exploit-db.com / exploits/7170
securityfocus.com / bid/32384
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3219