CVE-2005-1049
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.760-RC3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the…
- 2.6LowCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.760-RC3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) module parameter to admin.php or (2) op parameter to user.php. NOTE: the vendor reports that certain issues could not be reproduced for 760 RC3, or for .750. However, the op/user.php issue exists when the pnAntiCracker setting is disabled.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- PostNuke Phoenix 0.760 RC3 - 'OP' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 25366webapps, phppublished 8 Apr 2005Verified
- PostNuke Phoenix 0.760 RC3 - 'Module' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 25367webapps, phppublished 8 Apr 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:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% 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
10
- http://digitalparadox.org/advisories/postnuke.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 15370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20050408 Sql injection, xss and path disclosure vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.760-RC3 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 13076 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 14868 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1013670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 13075 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- postnuke-adminphp-userphp-xss(20018) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2679 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://cvs.postnuke.com/viewcvs.cgi/Historic_PostNuke_Library/postnuke-devel/html/user.php.diff?r1=1.18&r2=1.19 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2005-1052 (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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