Vulnerability CVE-2008-5996
Published: 2009-01-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Link3 -> Simplenews 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31377
http://drupal.org/node/312944
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45407
http://secunia.com/advisories/32022
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