MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1620

Serendipity vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
8.1%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
CRLF injection vulnerability in Serendipity before 0.7rc1 allows remote attackers to perform HTTP Response Splitting attacks to modify expected HTML content from the server via the url parameter in (1) index.php and (2) exit.php, or (3) the HTTP Referer field in comment.php.
Affected vendor
S9y
Affected product
Serendipity
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2004-10-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-1620

  • Confirm whether S9y Serendipity is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-1620.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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