CVE-2008-5939: Modxcms

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in MODx CMS 0.9.6.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a JavaScript event in the username field, possibly related to snippet.ditto.php. NOTE: some sources list the id parameter as being affected, but this is probably incorrect based on the original disclosure.

Affected products

• Modxcms Modxcms: up to and including 0.9.6.2; version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2.1 only; version 0.9.5 only; version 0.9.6 only; …

Published 2009-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.