CVE-2005-4490
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SCOOP! 2.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 7Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SCOOP! 2.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) keyword and (2) invalid parameter to articleSearch.asp; (3) username and (4) invalid parameter to lostPassword.asp; (5) Username, (6) Password, and (7) invalid parameter to account_login.asp; (8) area, (9) articleZoneID, (10) r, and (11) invalid parameters to category.asp; and invalid parameters to (12) articleZone.asp, (13) prePurchaserRegistration.asp, and (14) requestDemo.asp.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 7 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits7
Exploit-DB7 entries
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'articleSearch.asp' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26940webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'lostPassword.asp' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26941webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'account_login.asp' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26942webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'category.asp' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26943webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'articleZone.asp?Invalid' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26944webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'prePurchaserRegistration.asp?Invalid' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26945webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 2005Verified
- Commercial Interactive Media SCOOP! 2.3 - 'requestDemo.asp?Invalid' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26946webapps, asppublished 21 Dec 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
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 16015 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2005-3049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/scoop-multiple-xss-vuln.html (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-2005-4485 (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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-4490)Record last updated .