CVE-2005-1783

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

BookReview beta 1.0 allows remote attackers to obtain the path of the web server via certain parameters to search.htm, possibly due to a search[string] parameter with a missing value or an incorrect submit[type] value, which reveals the path in the resulting error message. NOTE: it is not clear whether BookReview is available to the public. If not, then it should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

W.M.R. Simpson Bookreview: beta_1.0

References

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/05/bookreview-10-multiple-variable-xss.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/1014058
http://www.osvdb.org/16880
http://www.osvdb.org/16881
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/05/bookreview-10-multiple-variable-xss.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/1014058
http://www.osvdb.org/16880
http://www.osvdb.org/16881

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