CVE-2008-5274

Exp

Todd Woolums ASP News Management 2.2 allows remote attackers to obtain news items via a direct request to (1) rss.asp, (2) viewheadings.asp, or (3) viewnews.asp. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Published: 2008-11-28 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5274 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.59%). 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-2008-5274

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5781 exploit_db edb 2008-06-10 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5274

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 2026-01-18 4.17% 4.59% +0.42%
2 2026-01-03 2.18% 4.17% +1.99%
3 2025-11-28 2.18%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5274

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5274

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5274

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
toddwoolums todd_woolums_asp_news_management 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:toddwoolums:todd_woolums_asp_news_management:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5274

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