CVE-2008-5164 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id parameter to (a) viewarticle.php and (b) viewarticle2.php and the (2) PATH_INFO to viewarticle.php

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id parameter to (a) viewarticle.php and (b) viewarticle2.php and the (2) PATH_INFO to viewarticle.php

Published Nov 19, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.49%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id parameter to (a) viewarticle.php and (b) viewarticle2.php and the (2) PATH_INFO to viewarticle.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.49% 0.01485

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

EPSS probability 0.01485

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 (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.49% (0.01485)	73.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.49% (0.01485)	70.55th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.83% (0.00831)	72.92th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00186)	57.20th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 3, 2024	0.19% (0.00186)	56.13th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00186)	54.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.01th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	55.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4612
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493684/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29959
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43378
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4612		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493684/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29959		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43378		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 19, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 19, 2008

Link CVE-2008-5164

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-5164

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-5164