CVE-2008-4456: MySQL

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the command-line client in MySQL 5.0.26 through 5.0.45, and other versions including versions later than 5.0.45, when the --html option is enabled, allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing it in a database cell, which might be accessed by this client when composing an HTML document. NOTE: as of 20081031, the issue has not been fixed in MySQL 5.0.67.

Affected products

• MySQL MySQL: version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.30 only; version 5.0.36 only; version 5.0.44 only
• Oracle MySQL: version 5.0.26 only; version 5.0.27 only; version 5.0.30 only; version 5.0.32 only; version 5.0.33 only; version 5.0.37 only; …

Published 2008-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.