Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2542

Title: Invision Power Board Attachment XSS

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-2542

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 10, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2542: Invision Power Board (IPB) 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an attachment, which is automatically downloaded and processed as HTML.

Impacted Vendors

invision_power_services 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112327712614854&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/16348 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14492 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112327712614854&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/16348 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14492

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2542 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26104

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 10, 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.