CVE-2008-2070 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WHM interface of cPanel versions 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary script or HTML by manipulating improperly-ordered angle brackets in specific parameters, such as 'issue' in scripts2/knowlegebase, 'user' in scripts2/changeip, and 'search' in scripts2/listaccts. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity. It is exploitable remotely over the network with medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. The potential impact is limited to partial integrity compromise, as an attacker could inject malicious client-side scripts. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, detailing specific XSS vectors. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.18.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.18.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.18.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.18.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.18.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:11.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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