{"id":"CVE-2005-4501","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-4501","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:16.605Z","title":"MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded \"internal placeholder string\", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet…","description":"MediaWiki before 1.5.4 uses a hard-coded \"internal placeholder string\", which allows remote attackers to bypass protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and execute Javascript using inline style attributes, which are processed by Internet Explorer.","published":"2005-12-22T21:03:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:18:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["mediawiki/mediawiki"],"epss":{"score":0.01438,"percentile":0.72964,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/18219","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/18717","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16032","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23882","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/18219","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/18717","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16032","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3059","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23882","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4501","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}