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medium 4.3

CVE-2008-3100 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/owl.lib.php in Steve Bourgeois and Chris Vincent Owl Intranet Knowledgebase 0.95 and earlie…

published 2008-07-29 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-3090

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/owl.lib.php in Steve Bourgeois and Chris Vincent Owl Intranet Knowledgebase 0.95 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter in a getpasswd action to register.php.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32122)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32122 Owl Intranet Engine 0.95 - 'register.php' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2008-07-28
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30410 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • datensalat.eu http://www.datensalat.eu/~fabian/cve/CVE-2008-3100-Owl.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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