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CVE-2005-4433

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4433 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search.php component of Esselbach Storyteller CMS version 1.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'query' parameter, which is processed by the search function. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, with no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:esselbach_internet_solutions:esselbach_storyteller_cms:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 28th 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

pridels0.blogspot.com / 2005/12/esselbach-storyteller-cms-xss-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/18130
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 21787
securityfocus.com / bid/15945
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2985