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TI-2008-06930 Aliases CVE-2008-7242GHSA-mfp9-xw7w-fwfc

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1…

Priority LOW 23CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Partial · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1 allo remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) search, (2) "a," (3) messagesubject, and (4) messagebody parameters to certain pages as reachable from manager/index.php; (5) highlight, (6) id, (7) email, (8) name, and (9) parent parameters to index.php; and the (10) docgrp and (11) moreResultsPage parameters to index-ajax.php.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01511 74th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*0.9.6.1VulnerableModxcms
cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6.1:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*0.9.6.1 p1VulnerableModxcms
  • cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.9.6.1 Vulnerable ·Modxcms
  • cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.6.1:p1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.9.6.1 p1 Vulnerable ·Modxcms

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2008-7242
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mfp9-xw7w-fwfc

References

Other 1

  • TI-2010-01381 SQL injection vulnerability in MODx Evolution before 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2008-05634 PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in assets/snippets/reflect/snippet.reflect.php in… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
  • TI-2008-00084 Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in MODx Content Management System 0.9.6.1… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.4
  • TI-2006-01767 Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in ModX 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.4
  • TI-2008-05636 SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in MODx 0.9.6.2 and earlier, when… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
  • TI-2007-05159 Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in mutate_content.dynamic.php in MODx 0.9.6 allow… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
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Sources

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