CVE-2008-5591 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in login.asp in Nightfall Personal Diary 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter and possibly other "login fields." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in login.asp in Nightfall Personal Diary 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter and possibly other "login fields." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information

Published Dec 16, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.57%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in login.asp in Nightfall Personal Diary 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter and possibly other "login fields." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.57% 0.01571

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

EPSS probability 0.01571

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.57% (0.01571)	74.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.57% (0.01571)	72.09th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Feb 5, 2026	3.70% (0.03701)	87.65th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.20% (0.02197)	73.97th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.10% (0.01104)	76.56th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.25% (0.00254)	65.79th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.25% (0.00254)	64.35th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.25% (0.00254)	61.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33011
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4742
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32658
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47110
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7351
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/33011		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4742		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32658		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47110		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7351		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 16, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 16, 2008

Link CVE-2008-5591

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-5591

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-5591