Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1597

Title: Invision Power Board (IPB) XSS via highlite parameter

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-1597

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 16, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1597: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in (1) search.php and (2) topics.php for Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the highlite parameter.

Impacted Vendors

invision_power_services 2

Reference Links

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=168016 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111539908705851&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15265 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013907 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00073-05052005 http://www.osvdb.org/16298 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13534 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0487 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20445 http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=168016 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111539908705851&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15265 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013907 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00073-05052005 http://www.osvdb.org/16298 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13534 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0487 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20445

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1597 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43824

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 16, 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.