Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0783

Title: Cacti Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-0783

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Feb 14, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0783: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.7 before 0.8.7b and 0.8.6 before 0.8.6k allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the view_type parameter to graph.php; (2) the filter parameter to graph_view.php; (3) the action parameter to the draw_navigation_text function in lib/functions.php, reachable through index.php (aka the login page) or data_input.php; or (4) the login_username parameter to index.php.

Impacted Vendors

the_cacti_group 1

cacti 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=1245 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28872 http://secunia.com/advisories/28976 http://secunia.com/advisories/29242 http://secunia.com/advisories/29274 http://secunia.com/advisories/30045 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-18.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3657 http://www.cacti.net/release_notes_0_8_7b.php http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1569 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:052 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488013/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488018/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27749 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34991 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019414 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0540 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432758 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50575 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00570.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00593.html http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=1245 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28872 http://secunia.com/advisories/28976 http://secunia.com/advisories/29242 http://secunia.com/advisories/29274 http://secunia.com/advisories/30045 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-18.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3657 http://www.cacti.net/release_notes_0_8_7b.php http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1569 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:052 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488013/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488018/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27749 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34991 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019414 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0540 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432758 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50575 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00570.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00593.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0783 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31157

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31158

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 14, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.