---
id: CVE-2008-0781
aliases:
  - GHSA-775g-4482-pm94
  - PYSEC-2026-669
title: MoinMoin Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
summary: MoinMoin Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
severity: medium
vendor: moin
product: moin
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - moin <= 1.5.8
published: '2022-05-01'
updated: '2026-07-06'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-775g-4482-pm94'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0781'
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432748'
  - url: 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1'
  - url: >-
      https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00726.html
  - url: >-
      https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00752.html
  - url: 'http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/db212dfc58ef'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/28987'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/29010'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/29262'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/29444'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/33755'
  - url: 'http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1514'
  - url: 'http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-27.xml'
  - url: 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27904'
  - url: 'http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0569/references'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.02558
epssPercentile: 0.84319
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:46.797Z'
---

## Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in `action/AttachFile.py` in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) message, (2) pagename, and (3) target filenames. The issue was fixed on [db212dfc58ef](http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/db212dfc58ef).

## Affected packages

- `moin <= 1.5.8`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.