Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3824

Title: Popoon Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-3824

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Sep 12, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3824: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in (1) Text_Filter/Filter/xss.php in Horde 3.1.x before 3.1.9 and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 and (2) externalinput.php in Popoon r22196 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by using / (slash) characters as replacements for spaces in an HTML e-mail message.

Impacted Vendors

horde 1

debian 1

popoon 1

Reference Links

http://blog.liip.ch/missed-case-in-externalinput-php-resulting-in-viable-xss-attacks.html http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122103888111491&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122104360019867&w=2 http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/Text_Filter.31.patch http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/Text_Filter.patch http://osvdb.org/47996 http://secunia.com/advisories/31842 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4245 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-012.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/10/1 http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2008-09-11.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496182/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31107 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2548 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45031 http://blog.liip.ch/missed-case-in-externalinput-php-resulting-in-viable-xss-attacks.html http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122103888111491&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=horde-announce&m=122104360019867&w=2 http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/Text_Filter.31.patch http://ocert.org/patches/2008-012/Text_Filter.patch http://osvdb.org/47996 http://secunia.com/advisories/31842 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4245 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-012.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/10/1 http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2008-09-11.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496182/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31107 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2548 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45031

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-2008-3824 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32353

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 12, 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.