CVE-2005-2488 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Web Content Management News System allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the strRootpath parameter to validsession.php or (2) the strTable parameter to Admin/News/List.php

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Web Content Management News System allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the strRootpath parameter to validsession.php or (2) the strTable parameter to Admin/News/List.php

Published Aug 7, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.77%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Web Content Management News System allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the strRootpath parameter to validsession.php or (2) the strTable parameter to Admin/News/List.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.77% 0.01768

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01768

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.77% (0.01768)	77.29th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.77% (0.01768)	75.13th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.49% (0.00492)	63.59th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.89% (0.00886)	83.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 27, 2024	0.89% (0.00886)	82.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.89% (0.00886)	80.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.92% (0.01917)	78.00th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	76.01th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.92% (0.01917)	55.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/16317
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014616
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
http://www.rgod.altervista.org/webc.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14464
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21689
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/16317		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014616		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKExploit
http://www.rgod.altervista.org/webc.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14464		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21689		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 7, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 7, 2005

Link CVE-2005-2488

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-2488

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-2488