# CVE-2008-1098: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or H

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-672, GHSA-8FJ9-PJ4P-4VQ7
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2008-03-05 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- moin (PyPI): through 1.5.8

## Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) certain input processed by formatter/text_gedit.py (aka the gui editor formatter); (2) a page name, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when the page is successfully deleted by a victim in a DeletePage action; or (3) the destination page name for a RenamePage action, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when a victim's rename attempt fails because of a duplicate name. NOTE: the AttachFile XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0781, and the login XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0780.

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## Related

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/30031
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33755
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-27.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29262
- http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00538.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00510.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29444
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/d0152eeb4499
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41037
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28173
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1514
- http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/4ede07e792dd

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