---
id: CVE-2008-1098
aliases:
  - GHSA-8fj9-pj4p-4vq7
  - PYSEC-2026-672
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-8fj9-pj4p-4vq7'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1098'
  - url: 'https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41037'
  - url: 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/716-1'
  - url: >-
      https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00510.html
  - url: >-
      https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00538.html
  - url: 'http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/4ede07e792dd'
  - url: 'http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/d0152eeb4499'
  - url: 'http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/29262'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/29444'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/30031'
  - 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/28173'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.01818
epssPercentile: 0.77432
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:47.468Z'
---

## Overview

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.
The issue has been fixed on [d0152eeb4499](http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/d0152eeb4499) and [4ede07e792dd](http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.5/rev/4ede07e792dd).

## Affected packages

- `moin <= 1.5.8`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.