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CVE-2005-2539

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2539 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and earlier versions. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various parameters in structure.php and footer.php, as well as via the message body in news posts. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring user interaction (medium attack complexity) to achieve a partial impact on integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or inclusion in the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:flatnuke:flatnuke:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26099 · Aug 5, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0253 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/16330
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21707
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21708
osvdb.org / 18551
osvdb.org / 18552
osvdb.org / 18553
rgod.altervista.org / flatnuke.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/14483