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CVE-2005-4496

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4496 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SyntaxCMS 1.2.1 and earlier, specifically within the search functionality. An unauthenticated attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search_query parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. While there is an ExploitDB entry, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:forum_one:syntaxcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26968 · Dec 21, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 54th 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/syntaxcms-xss-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/18207
osvdb.org / 21859
securityfocus.com / bid/16033
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/3054