Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2689

Title: Postnuke Software Foundation Postnuke Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-2689

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 24, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 2.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2689: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.760-RC4b allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the moderate parameter to the Comments module or (2) htmltext parameter to html/user.php.

Impacted Vendors

postnuke 1

postnuke_software_foundation 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408818 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14635 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408818 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14635

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-2005-2689 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26188

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26187

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June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 24, 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.