CVE-2008-5193

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.asp in W1L3D4 Philboard 1.14 and 1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchterms parameter. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2007-4024.

Published: 2008-11-21 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5193 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.70%). Core evidence: 1 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-2008-5193

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5958 exploit_db edb 2008-06-27 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5193

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 2026-01-11 2.91% 3.70% +0.79%
2 2025-12-08 1.68% 2.91% +1.23%
3 2025-11-21 1.68%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5193

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-2008-5193

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5193

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
philboard philboard 1.2 cpe:2.3:a:philboard:philboard:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
philboard philboard 1.14 cpe:2.3:a:philboard:philboard:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5193

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