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CVE-2008-5211

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5211 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Sphider 1.3.4, specifically within its search.php component when the search suggestion feature is active. An attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'query' parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 2.6, indicating low severity, as it requires high attack complexity and only impacts integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sphider:sphider:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31751 · May 6, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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/30082
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/4629
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42240
users.own-hero.net / ~decoder/advisories/sphider134-xss.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/491712/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29074