PT-2008-6721 · Textpattern · Textpattern

Alexandr Polyakov + 1 · Published 2008-12-18 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5669

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Textpattern (aka Txp CMS) version 4.0.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This is achieved by sending a long message parameter to the comments preview section in index.php.

Recommendations For Textpattern (aka Txp CMS) version 4.0.5, consider restricting the length of the message parameter in the comments preview section to prevent denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5669

Affected Products

Textpattern

References · 7

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/27606 · Exploit
• http://textpattern.com/weblog/310/textpattern-406-released · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5669 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4786 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/487483/100/200/threaded · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5669 · Note