CVE-2005-4880

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Jax Guestbook 3.1 and 3.31 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain IP addresses of users via a direct request to (1) guestbook, (2) guestbook_ips2block, (3) ips2block, and (4) formmailer/logfile.csv.

Affected products

Jax Scripts Jax Guestbook: 3.1, 3.3.1

References

http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/08/jax-php-scripts-multiple.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16337
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/08/jax-php-scripts-multiple.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16337

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