CVE-2005-4555

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in add.php in DEV web management system 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) ENTER_ARTICLE_TITLE, (2) SPECIFY_ZONE, (3) ENTER_ARTICLE_HEADER, and (4) ENTER_ARTICLE_BODY indices in the language array parameter.

Published: 2005-12-28 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-4555 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.93%). Core evidence: 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2005-4555

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-4555

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 1.07% 1.93% +0.86%
2 2025-03-30 0.77% 1.07% +0.30%
3 2025-03-29 0.77%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-4555

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-2005-4555

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-4555

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dev dev_web_management_system 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:dev:dev_web_management_system:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-4555

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