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CVE-2007-1873

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-1873 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mephisto 0.7.3, allowing attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML through the 'q' parameter of the search function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and could lead to information disclosure or session hijacking, though it does not impact availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit is available on ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mephisto:mephisto:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29780 · Mar 26, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0222 is in the 69th 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

int21.de / cve/CVE-2007-1873-mephisto.txt
osvdb.org / 34911
secunia.com / advisories/24870
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/33484
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/33620
securityfocus.com / archive/1/465484/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/465548/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/23141
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1373