Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7089

Title: Pligg Pligg Cms Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-7089

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 26, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7089: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pligg 9.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the keyword parameter in a search action to user.php and other unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

pligg 1

Reference Links

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00120-07312008 http://www.osvdb.org/50186 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494987/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30458 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44187 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00120-07312008 http://www.osvdb.org/50186 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494987/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30458 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44187 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173

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-2008-7089 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 26, 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.