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CVE-2008-7171

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7171 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Lightweight news portal (LNP) version 1.0b. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML through parameters in show_photo.php, show_potd.php, and the "Current question" field in admin.php. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, with no authentication required. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yanick_bourbeau:lightweight_news_portal:1.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5873 · Jun 20, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0144 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43224
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43226
exploit-db.com / exploits/5873
securityfocus.com / bid/29848
Exploit