CVE-2005-4407 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.cfm in Mercury CMS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) content and (2) criteria parameters

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MEDIUM

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.cfm in Mercury CMS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) content and (2) criteria parameters

Published Dec 20, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.94%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.cfm in Mercury CMS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) content and (2) criteria parameters.

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 (11 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)	56.07th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.28% (0.00279)	49.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.17% (0.00168)	54.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 26, 2023	0.17% (0.00169)	53.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 15, 2023	0.16% (0.00164)	51.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.15% (0.00154)	49.84th	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://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/mercury-cms-vuln.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.osvdb.org/21863
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/mercury-cms-vuln.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.osvdb.org/21863		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 20, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Dec 20, 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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