Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-6565

Title: Invision Power Services Invision Power Board Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-6565

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Mar 31, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-6565: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Invision Power Board 2.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an IFRAME tag in the signature.

Impacted Vendors

invision_power_services 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490115/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28466 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41502 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490115/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28466 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41502

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-2008-6565 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31541

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 31, 2009 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.