CVE-2008-6062 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ActionScript in arbitrary Shockwave Flash (SWF) files created by Adobe Dreamweaver, when the Insert Flash Video feature is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an asfunction: URI in the skinName parameter

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ActionScript in arbitrary Shockwave Flash (SWF) files created by Adobe Dreamweaver, when the Insert Flash Video feature is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an asfunction: URI in the skinName parameter

Published Feb 5, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.66%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ActionScript in arbitrary Shockwave Flash (SWF) files created by Adobe Dreamweaver, when the Insert Flash Video feature is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an asfunction: URI in the skinName parameter. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2007-6242, CVE-2007-6244, or CVE-2007-6637.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.66% 0.01659

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

EPSS probability 0.01659

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	1.66% (0.01659)	75.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.66% (0.01659)	73.51th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 28, 2026	13.54% (0.13543)	94.17th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Feb 7, 2026	7.59% (0.07587)	91.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.15% (0.01153)	77.05th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.39% (0.00387)	74.05th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.39% (0.00387)	72.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.39% (0.00391)	69.11th	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 (4)

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajfxntc4dmsq_14dt57ssdw
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-20.html
x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/249337
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485722/100/100/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajfxntc4dmsq_14dt57ssdw		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-20.html		x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/249337		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485722/100/100/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 5, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 4, 2009

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-6062

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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