CVE-2007-3486 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to the default URI

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to the default URI

Published Jun 28, 2007

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.84%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to the default URI.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.84% 0.00845

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

EPSS probability 0.00845

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	0.84% (0.00845)	56.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.84% (0.00845)	53.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.22% (0.00224)	43.01th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00164)	54.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 24, 2024	0.15% (0.00154)	50.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 30, 2023	0.15% (0.00146)	50.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00142)	48.12th	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://osvdb.org/36813
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://websecurity.com.ua/1038/
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/36813		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://websecurity.com.ua/1038/		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 28, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jun 28, 2007

Link CVE-2007-3486

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-3486

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-3486