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CVE-2005-4260

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4260 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 7.9 and later, specifically within the includes/mainfile.php component. This flaw arises from an interpretation conflict where replacing a ">" with a "<" in HTML tags bypasses PHP-Nuke's sanitization, though many browsers auto-correct this. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), it is a network-exploitable vulnerability with medium access complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure (e.g., session hijacking) without requiring authentication. While there is an ExploitDB entry (EDB-26817) for a content filtering bypass, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:francisco_burzi:php-nuke:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26817 · Dec 14, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0211 is in the 67th 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

securityfocus.com / archive/1/419496/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/419991/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/15855
Exploit