CVE-2005-4481

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Polopoly 9 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified search parameters. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this vulnerability, stating that the "XSS flaw was only part of the custom implementation of the [polopoly] site". As of 20061003, CVE has no further information on this issue, except that the original researcher has a history of testing live sites and assuming that discoveries indicate vulnerabilities in the associated package

Affected products

Polopoly: through 9.0

References

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-September/001056.html
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/polopoly-xss-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21878
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16007
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-September/001056.html
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/polopoly-xss-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21878
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16007

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