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CVE-2005-3998

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3998 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Solupress News 1.0 and earlier, specifically within the search.asp component, allowing attackers to inject malicious web script via the 'keywords' parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and could lead to information disclosure or session hijacking with moderate attack complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:solupress:solupress_news:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26704 · Dec 3, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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/solupress-news-xss-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/17854
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23427
osvdb.org / 21430
securityfocus.com / bid/15695
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2719