CVE-2008-6400: Refbase

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in refbase before 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the headerMsg parameter to (1) show.php and (2) search.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Refbase Refbase: up to and including 0.9.0; version 0.6 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.8.0 only

Published 2009-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.