CVE-2005-4596
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in read.php in AdesGuestbook 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in read.php in AdesGuestbook 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the totalRows_rsRead parameter.
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.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Ades Design AdesGuestbook 2.0 Read Script - Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26992webapps, phppublished 30 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
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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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (9 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
5
- 22111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 18244 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/adesguestbook-xss-vuln.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 16090 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- adesguestbook-read-xss(23909) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2005-4591 (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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