CVE-2008-5995
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the freeCap CAPTCHA (sr_freecap) extension before 1.0.4 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (65th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5965)
- Published
- January 28, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5965 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- typo3 / freecap captcha extension
- typo3 / freecap captcha extension
- typo3 / freecap captcha extension
- typo3 / freecap captcha extension
- typo3 / typo3
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31946(Vendor Advisory)
- http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/sr_freecap/1.0.4/
- http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080924-2/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31370
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45379
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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