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CVE-2008-5271

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5271 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in SyndeoCMS version 2.6.0, specifically within the index.php file. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML via the 'section' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), it requires medium attack complexity and primarily impacts integrity, potentially leading to unauthorized data manipulation or session hijacking. While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:syndeocms:syndeocms:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5779 · Jun 10, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0152 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

secunia.com / advisories/30602
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42970
exploit-db.com / exploits/5779
securityfocus.com / bid/29644