Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2003-1498

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1498 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search.php component of WRENSOFT Zoom Search Engine version 2.0 Build 1018 and earlier. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the zoom_query parameter. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog or experiencing widespread community discussion or media coverage, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0_build_1018CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wrensoft:zoom_search_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23244 · Oct 14, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2003-10/0173.html
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13431
securityfocus.com / bid/8823
ExploitPatch