CVE-2005-4880
Jax Guestbook 3.1 and 3.31 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Jax Guestbook 3.1 and 3.31 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain IP addresses of users via a direct request to (1) guestbook, (2) guestbook_ips2block, (3) ips2block, and (4) formmailer/logfile.csv.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 4 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Jax PHP Scripts 1.0/1.34/2.14/3.31 - Guestbook File Client IP Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26089webapps, phppublished 5 Aug 2005Verified
- Jax PHP Scripts 1.0/1.34/2.14/3.31 - guestbook_ips2block Banned IP List Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26090webapps, phppublished 5 Aug 2005Verified
- Jax PHP Scripts 1.0/1.34/2.14/3.31 - ips2block Banned IP List Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26091webapps, phppublished 5 Aug 2005Verified
- Jax PHP Scripts 1.0/1.34/2.14/3.31 - logfile.csv User IP Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26092webapps, phppublished 5 Aug 2005Verified
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- 16337 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/08/jax-php-scripts-multiple.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-2005-4871 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-4880)Record last updated .