Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1049

Title: PostNuke multiple XSS vulnerabilities

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-1049

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 2.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1049: Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.760-RC3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) module parameter to admin.php or (2) op parameter to user.php. NOTE: the vendor reports that certain issues could not be reproduced for 760 RC3, or for .750. However, the op/user.php issue exists when the pnAntiCracker setting is disabled.

Impacted Vendors

postnuke_software_foundation 1

postnuke 1

Reference Links

http://cvs.postnuke.com/viewcvs.cgi/Historic_PostNuke_Library/postnuke-devel/html/user.php.diff?r1=1.18&r2=1.19 http://digitalparadox.org/advisories/postnuke.txt http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111298226029957&w=2 http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2679 http://secunia.com/advisories/14868/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1013670 http://www.osvdb.org/15370 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13075 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13076 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20018 http://cvs.postnuke.com/viewcvs.cgi/Historic_PostNuke_Library/postnuke-devel/html/user.php.diff?r1=1.18&r2=1.19 http://digitalparadox.org/advisories/postnuke.txt http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111298226029957&w=2 http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2679 http://secunia.com/advisories/14868/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1013670 http://www.osvdb.org/15370 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13075 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13076 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20018

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1049 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25367

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25366

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.