CVE-2003-1277

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB) 1.5.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users and possibly steal authentication information via cookies by injecting arbitrary HTML or script into (1) news_icon of news_template.php, and (2) threadid and subject of index.html

Published: 2003-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2003-1277 is rated Exploit Available (57.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.68%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2003-1277

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-1277

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-08-24 0.57% 0.68% +0.11%
2 2025-03-30 0.82% 0.57% -0.25%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.82% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-1277

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-1277

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-1277

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yabb yabb 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:yabb:yabb:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-1277

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