MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2005-0782

Pafiledb vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in (1) viewall.php and (2) category.php for paFileDB 3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the start parameter to pafiledb.php.
Affected vendor
Php Arena
Affected product
Pafiledb
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2005-05-02

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-0782

  • Confirm whether Php Arena Pafiledb is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-0782.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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