CVE-2005-4231 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Link Up Gold 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) link parameter to tell_friend.php, (2) phrase[] parameter to search.php in a search_links_advanced action, and the (3) direction or (4) sort parameter to articles.php

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Link Up Gold 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) link parameter to tell_friend.php, (2) phrase[] parameter to search.php in a search_links_advanced action, and the (3) direction or (4) sort parameter to articles.php

Published Dec 14, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.18%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Link Up Gold 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) link parameter to tell_friend.php, (2) phrase[] parameter to search.php in a search_links_advanced action, and the (3) direction or (4) sort parameter to articles.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.18% 0.01177

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

EPSS probability 0.01177

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.18% (0.01177)	66.49th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.18% (0.01177)	63.43th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00360)	56.02th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.28% (0.00284)	69.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.29% (0.00286)	67.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 9, 2023	0.29% (0.00286)	64.01th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.27% (0.00268)	62.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/link-up-gold-vuln.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18031
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15843
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2884
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/link-up-gold-vuln.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18031		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15843		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2884		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 14, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 14, 2005

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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