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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4231

Original release date:12/14/2005

Last revised:03/08/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-2884

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2884

External Source: BID

Name: 15843

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15843

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18031

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18031

External Source: MISC

Name: http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/link-up-gold-vuln.html

Hyperlink:http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/link-up-gold-vuln.html