CVE-2008-2911

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in index.php in Contenido 4.8.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) contenido, (2) Belang, and (3) username parameters.

Published: 2008-06-30 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2911 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.04%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-2911

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5810 exploit_db edb 2008-06-14 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2911

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-07 3.64% 4.04% +0.40%
2 2025-12-06 2.13% 3.64% +1.51%
3 2025-08-20 2.13%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2911

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-2911

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2911

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
contenido contendio 4.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:contenido:contendio:4.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2911

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