Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5039

Title: Php-Nuke League Module Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-5039

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Nov 12, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5039: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the League module for PHP-Nuke, possibly 2.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tid parameter in a team action to modules.php.

Impacted Vendors

francisco_burzi 1

phpnuke 1

php-nuke 2

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4575 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497855/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31952 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46154 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4575 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497855/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31952 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46154

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-2008-5039 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32538

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 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.