CVE-2008-6946

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in manageproject.php in Collabtive 0.4.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the project Name, which is not properly handled when the administrator performs an editform action, related to admin.php.

Published: 2009-08-12 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-6946 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.44%). 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-2008-6946

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7076 exploit_db edb 2008-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6946

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 2026-06-15 3.84% 3.44% -0.41%
2 2025-12-19 2.96% 3.84% +0.88%
3 2025-05-30 2.96%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6946

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-2008-6946

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6946

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
collabtive collabtive 0.4.8 cpe:2.3:a:collabtive:collabtive:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6946

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