CVE-2008-3569

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XAMPP 1.6.7, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to (1) iart.php and (2) ming.php.

Published: 2008-08-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-3569 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.33%). 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-2008-3569

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
32165 exploit_db edb 2008-08-04 Exploit-DB ↗
32166 exploit_db edb 2008-08-04 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-3569

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 2026-02-12 0.69% 1.33% +0.64%
2 2025-09-30 0.53% 0.69% +0.16%
3 2025-03-30 0.53%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-3569

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-2008-3569

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-3569

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache_friends xampp 1.6.7 cpe:2.3:a:apache_friends:xampp:1.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-3569

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