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CVE-2005-3966

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3966 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search.jsp component of Java Search Engine (JSE) version 0.9.34. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into a user's browser by manipulating the 'q' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and results in partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:java_search_engine:java_search_engine:0.9.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26700 · Dec 2, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0420 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

pridels0.blogspot.com / 2005/12/jse-xss-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/17834
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 21376
securityfocus.com / bid/15687
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2690