CVE-2005-2044

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ATutor 1.4.3 and 1.5 RC 1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) show_course parameter to browse.php, (2) subject parameter to contact.php, (3) cid parameter to content.php, (4) l parameter to inbox/send_message.php, the (5) search, (6) words, (7) include, (8) find_in, (9) display_as, or (10) search parameter to search.php, the (11) submit, (12) query, or (13) field parameter to tile.php, the (14) us parameter to forum/subscribe_forum.php, or the (15) roles[], (16) status, (17) submit, or (18) reset_filter parameters to directory.php.

Published: 2005-06-16 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-2044 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.91%). Core evidence: 10 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.51% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-2044

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
25832 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25833 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25829 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25830 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25834 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25828 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25827 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25826 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
25831 exploit_db edb 2005-06-16 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-2044

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 2026-06-15 1.40% 2.91% +1.51%
2 2026-04-26 1.23% 1.40% +0.17%
3 2025-08-14 1.23%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-2044

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-2005-2044

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-2044

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
adaptive_technology_resource_centre atutor 1.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:adaptive_technology_resource_centre:atutor:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adaptive_technology_resource_centre atutor 1.5_rc_1 cpe:2.3:a:adaptive_technology_resource_centre:atutor:1.5_rc_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-2044

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