CVE-2011-5025

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the wiki application in Yaws 1.88 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the tag parameter to editTag.yaws, (2) the index parameter to showOldPage.yaws, (3) the node parameter to allRefsToMe.yaws, or (4) the text parameter to editPage.yaws.

Published: 2011-12-29 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2011-5025 is rated Exploit Available (51.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.33%). 2 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-2011-5025

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
36498 exploit_db edb 2012-01-05 Exploit-DB ↗
17111 exploit_db edb 2011-04-04 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2011-5025

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 2026-02-02 0.40% 0.33% -0.07%
2 2025-11-19 0.61% 0.40% -0.21%
3 2025-08-29 — 0.61% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2011-5025

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-2011-5025

OS Trackers for CVE-2011-5025

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2011-5025 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (yaws), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-5025
ubuntu medium CVE-2011-5025 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (yaws), 20 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 15, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-5025

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2011-5025

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yaws yaws 1.88 cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.88:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2011-5025

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