CVE-2013-5588

medium
Published 2013-08-29 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the step parameter to install/index.php or (2) the id parameter to cacti/host.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.8.8b+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.8.8b+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed0.8.8b+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed0.8.8b+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.8.8b+dfsg-3
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
cacticacti0.8.6g
cacticacti{"endIncluding":"0.8.8b"}
cacticacti0.8
cacticacti0.8.1
cacticacti0.8.2
cacticacti0.8.2a
cacticacti0.8.3
cacticacti0.8.3a
cacticacti0.8.4
cacticacti0.8.5
cacticacti0.8.5a
cacticacti0.8.6
cacticacti0.8.6a
cacticacti0.8.6b
cacticacti0.8.6c
cacticacti0.8.6d
cacticacti0.8.6e
cacticacti0.8.6f
cacticacti0.8.6h
cacticacti0.8.6i
cacticacti0.8.6j
cacticacti0.8.6k
cacticacti0.8.7
cacticacti0.8.7a
cacticacti0.8.7b
cacticacti0.8.7c
cacticacti0.8.7d
cacticacti0.8.7e
cacticacti0.8.7f
cacticacti0.8.7g
cacticacti0.8.7h
cacticacti0.8.7i
cacticacti0.8.8
cacticacti0.8.8a

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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