CVE-2005-1597 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Invision Power Board (IPB) versions 2.0.3 and earlier, specifically within the search.php and topics.php scripts. This vulnerability allows remote unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'highlite' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this medium-severity flaw primarily impacts integrity (I:P), requiring moderate attack complexity (AC:M) but no authentication (Au:N). While not listed on the KEV catalog and showing no active exploitation or significant community discussion, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-43824) exists, indicating public exploit code availability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invision_power_services:invision_board:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invision_power_services:invision_board:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invision_power_services:invision_board:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invision_power_services:invision_board:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invision_power_services:invision_board:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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