CVE-2008-5942: Modxcms

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MODx before 0.9.6.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the preserveUrls function and (2) "username input." NOTE: vector 2 may be related to CVE-2008-5939.

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.