CVE-2005-0905
Maxthon 1.2.0 allows remote malicious web sites to obtain potentially sensitive data from the search bar via the m2_search_text property.
- 2.6LowCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Maxthon 1.2.0 allows remote malicious web sites to obtain potentially sensitive data from the search bar via the m2_search_text property.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Maxthon Web Browser 1.2 - Search Bar Information Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 25274remote, windowspublished 25 Mar 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 16% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://forum.maxthon.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18207 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.raffon.net/advisories/maxthon/searchbarid.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 12898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20050325 Maxthon browser search bar information disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 14712 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0906 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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