CVE-2005-3556

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PHPlist 2.10.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) listname parameter in (a) admin/editlist.php, (2) title parameter in (b) admin/spageedit.php, (3) title field in (c) admin/template.php, (4) filter, (5) delete, and (6) start parameters in (d) admin/eventlog.php, (7) id parameter in (e) admin/configure.php, (8) find parameter in (f) admin/users.php, (9) start parameter in (g) admin/admin.php, and (10) action parameter in (h) admin/fckphplist.php.

Published: 2005-11-16 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-3556 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.64%). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2005-3556

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
26485 exploit_db edb 2005-11-07 Exploit-DB ↗
26483 exploit_db edb 2005-11-07 Exploit-DB ↗
26484 exploit_db edb 2005-11-07 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-3556

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 5.22% 3.64% -1.58%
2 2026-03-11 5.27% 5.22% -0.06%
3 2025-10-14 — 5.27% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-3556

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-2005-3556

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-3556

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
tincan phplist <= 2.10.1 cpe:2.3:a:tincan:phplist:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-3556

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