Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4238

Title: Mantis Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-4238

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 14, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4238: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in view_filters_page.php in Mantis 1.0.0rc3 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the target_field parameter.

Impacted Vendors

mantis 1

matisbt 1

Reference Links

http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/mantis-bugtracking-system-xss-vuln.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18018 http://secunia.com/advisories/18481 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-944 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15842 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2874 http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/mantis-bugtracking-system-xss-vuln.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18018 http://secunia.com/advisories/18481 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-944 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15842 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2874

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-2005-4238 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26798

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 14, 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.