CVE-2008-4733 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wpcommentremix.php in WP Comment Remix plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) replytotext, (2) quotetext, (3) originallypostedby, (4) sep, (5) maxtags, (6) tagsep, (7) tagheadersep, (8) taglabel, and (9) tagheaderlabel parameters

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wpcommentremix.php in WP Comment Remix plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) replytotext, (2) quotetext, (3) originallypostedby, (4) sep, (5) maxtags, (6) tagsep, (7) tagheadersep, (8) taglabel, and (9) tagheaderlabel parameters

Published Oct 24, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.14%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wpcommentremix.php in WP Comment Remix plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) replytotext, (2) quotetext, (3) originallypostedby, (4) sep, (5) maxtags, (6) tagsep, (7) tagheadersep, (8) taglabel, and (9) tagheaderlabel parameters.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.14% 0.02142

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02142

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 3, 2026	2.14% (0.02142)	81.42th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.14% (0.02142)	79.61th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.27% (0.00274)	48.79th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.36% (0.00362)	73.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.35% (0.00347)	70.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.35% (0.00347)	67.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	69.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (6)

http://chxsecurity.org/advisories/adv-3-full.txt
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/32253
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4492
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497313/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31750
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45861
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://chxsecurity.org/advisories/adv-3-full.txt		x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/32253		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4492		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497313/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31750		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45861		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 24, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Oct 24, 2008

Link CVE-2008-4733

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-4733

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-4733