CVE-2008-4379

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in report.php in Mr. CGI Guy Hot Links SQL-PHP 3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter.

Published: 2008-10-01 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-4379 is rated High Exploit Risk (64/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.13%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.52% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-4379

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6403 exploit_db edb 2008-09-09 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-4379

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 2025-12-12 1.61% 3.13% +1.52%
2 2025-11-21 1.10% 1.61% +0.51%
3 2025-10-01 1.10%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-4379

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-2008-4379

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-4379

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mr._cgi_guy hot_links_sql_php <= 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mr._cgi_guy:hot_links_sql_php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-4379

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