Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7242

Title: Modxcms Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-7242

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Sep 17, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7242: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1 allo remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) search, (2) "a," (3) messagesubject, and (4) messagebody parameters to certain pages as reachable from manager/index.php; (5) highlight, (6) id, (7) email, (8) name, and (9) parent parameters to index.php; and the (10) docgrp and (11) moreResultsPage parameters to index-ajax.php.

Impacted Vendors

modxcms 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/41232 http://secunia.com/advisories/28840 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375 http://osvdb.org/41232 http://secunia.com/advisories/28840 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375

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-2008-7242 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31120

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 17, 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.