CVE-2005-2608 — SafeHTML before 1.3.5 does not properly filter script in UTF-7 and CSS comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in vulnerable applications that use SafeHTML

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MEDIUM

SafeHTML before 1.3.5 does not properly filter script in UTF-7 and CSS comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in vulnerable applications that use SafeHTML

Published Aug 17, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.94%

Description

SafeHTML before 1.3.5 does not properly filter script in UTF-7 and CSS comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in vulnerable applications that use SafeHTML.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.94% 0.00938

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

EPSS probability 0.00938

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.94% (0.00938)	59.46th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.94% (0.00938)	56.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.32% (0.00316)	52.43th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.15% (0.00146)	52.05th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 23, 2023	0.17% (0.00169)	52.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00164)	51.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/16427
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14574
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/16427		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14574		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 17, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 17, 2005

Link CVE-2005-2608

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-2608

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-2608