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CVE-2005-4229

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4229 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in EveryAuction version 1.53 and earlier, specifically within the auction.pl script. Attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the "searchstring" parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with potential for partial integrity impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

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
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26786 · Dec 13, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 19,953 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

secunia.com / advisories/18016
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23568
osvdb.org / 21674
securityfocus.com / bid/15824
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2857