CVE-2008-6891 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ASP Forum Script allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) forum_id parameter to (a) new_message.asp and (b) messages.asp, and the (2) query string to default.asp

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ASP Forum Script allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) forum_id parameter to (a) new_message.asp and (b) messages.asp, and the (2) query string to default.asp

Published Aug 3, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.47%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ASP Forum Script allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) forum_id parameter to (a) new_message.asp and (b) messages.asp, and the (2) query string to default.asp.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.47% 0.01472

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

EPSS probability 0.01472

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	1.47% (0.01472)	72.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.47% (0.01472)	70.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.23% (0.00231)	43.88th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00156)	53.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.16% (0.00156)	52.14th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00156)	50.14th	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 (3)

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/aspforum-cmsqlxss.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32571
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47002
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/aspforum-cmsqlxss.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32571		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47002		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 3, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 3, 2009

Link CVE-2008-6891

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-6891

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-6891