CVE-2008-5940: Modxcms

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in MODx 0.9.6.2 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the searchid parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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.