PT-2005-5181 · Text E · Text-E

Published 2005-12-22 · Updated 2008-09-20 · CVE-2005-4498

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Text-e versions 1.6.4 and earlier

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified search parameters. This could potentially lead to unauthorized actions on the affected system.

Recommendations For Text-e versions 1.6.4 and earlier, consider restricting access to search functionality until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using unspecified search parameters in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4498

Affected Products

Text-E

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4498 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/22067 · Note
• http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/text-e-xss-vuln.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16035 · Note