cve/2008/CVE-2008-5211.md

### [CVE-2008-5211](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5211)
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### Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.php in Sphider 1.3.4, when the search suggestion feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter, a different vector than CVE-2006-2506.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4629
- http://users.own-hero.net/~decoder/advisories/sphider134-xss.txt

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.