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CVE-2008-4542

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES162, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES56, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by entering it in the database (aka data store).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Cisco — Unity

CWEs

References

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