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CVE-2005-4231

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4231 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Link Up Gold version 2.5 and earlier. Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various parameters in tell_friend.php, search.php, and articles.php. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php_web_scripts:link_up_gold:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 29th 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/link-up-gold-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/18031
securityfocus.com / bid/15843
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2884