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CVE-2008-0279

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0279 describes a SQL injection vulnerability in Xforum 1.4, specifically within the liretopic.php script, affecting the 'topic' and potentially 'categorie' parameters. This critical flaw (CVSS 7.5) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No), public exploit code exists (EDB-4908), indicating a known attack vector despite low community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xforum:xforum:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
58.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-4908 · Jan 14, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/39654
exploit-db.com / exploits/4908
securityfocus.com / bid/27278
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