CVE-2008-5996: LINK3 Simplenews

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simplenews module 5.x before 5.x-1.5 and 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with "administer taxonomy" permissions, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field.

Affected products

• LINK3 Simplenews: up to and including 5.x-1.4; up to and including 6.x-1.0; version 4.6.x-1.x-dev only; version 4.7.x-1.0 only; version 4.7.x-1.x-dev only; version 4.7.x-2.x-dev only; …

Published 2009-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.