CVE-2008-4450 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adodb.php in XAMPP for Windows 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbserver, (2) host, (3) user, (4) password, (5) database, and (6) table parameters

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adodb.php in XAMPP for Windows 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbserver, (2) host, (3) user, (4) password, (5) database, and (6) table parameters

Published Oct 6, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.02%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adodb.php in XAMPP for Windows 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) dbserver, (2) host, (3) user, (4) password, (5) database, and (6) table parameters. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.02% 0.01022

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01022

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.02% (0.01022)	62.15th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.02% (0.01022)	58.82th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.30% (0.00296)	50.92th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00192)	58.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 24, 2024	0.19% (0.00192)	57.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00192)	55.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32134
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31472
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45522
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/32134		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31472		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45522		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 6, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Oct 6, 2008

Link CVE-2008-4450

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-4450

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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