CVE-2008-7117

Exp

eledicss.php in WeBid auction script 0.5.4 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary cascading style sheets (CSS) files via a certain request with the file parameter set to style.css. NOTE: this can probably be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Published: 2009-08-28 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-7117 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.46%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.27% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2008-7117

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6339 exploit_db edb 2008-08-31 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-7117

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 1.19% 2.46% +1.27%
2 2025-03-30 0.95% 1.19% +0.24%
3 2025-03-29 0.95%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-7117

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:N/I:P/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-7117

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-7117

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
webidsupport webid 0.5.4 cpe:2.3:a:webidsupport:webid:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-7117

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