CVE-2008-5845 (GCVE-0-2008-5845)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:04
VLAI
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Six Apart Movable Type (MT) before 4.23 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) MTEntryAuthorUsername, (2) MTAuthorDisplayName, (3) MTEntryAuthorDisplayName, or (4) MTCommenterName field in a Profile View template; a (5) listing screen or (6) edit screen in the CMS app; (7) a TrackBack title, related to the HTML sanitization library; or (8) a user archive name (aka archive title) on a published Community Blog template.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN45658190/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
http://www.movabletype.org/mt_423_change_log.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-0… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
Date Public
2008-12-02 00:00
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