CVE-2005-4305

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Edgewall Trac 0.9, 0.9.1, and 0.9.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL, which is not properly sanitized before it is returned in an error page.

Published: 2005-12-16 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-4305 is rated Moderate Risk (42.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.44%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-4305

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 0.56% 1.44% +0.88%
2 2025-03-17 1.05% 0.56% -0.49%
3 2024-12-17 1.05%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-4305

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-2005-4305

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-4305

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2005-4305 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (trac), 2 status rows across 2 suites (sid, trixie): resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4305
gentoo low CVE-2005-4305: 1 GLSA(s) (200601-12), 1 atom(s) (www-apps/trac); latest impact low. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2005-4305
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-4305 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (trac), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-4305

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-4305

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
edgewall_software trac 0.9 cpe:2.3:a:edgewall_software:trac:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
edgewall_software trac 0.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:edgewall_software:trac:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
edgewall_software trac 0.9.2 cpe:2.3:a:edgewall_software:trac:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-4305

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