CVE-2005-4621

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the editavatar page in vBulletin 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL in the remote avatar url field, in which the URL generates a parsing error, and possibly requiring a trailing extension such as .jpg.

Affected products

Jelsoft Vbulletin: 1.0.1, 2.0.3, 2.0_rc2, 2.0_rc3, 2.2.0, 2.2.1 (+32)

References

http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/11/vbulletin-351-xss-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21373
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16128
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166391
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/11/vbulletin-351-xss-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21373
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16128
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166391

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