MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2005-4385

Cofax vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
8.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.htm in Cofax 2.0 RC3 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchstring parameter.
Affected vendor
Cofax
Affected product
Cofax
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2005-12-20

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 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-4385

  • Confirm whether Cofax Cofax is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-4385.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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