XSS in Phparena Panews

CVE-2005-0485

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in comment.php for paNews 2.0b4 for PHP Arena allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the showpost parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2005-03-30 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Phparena Panews — versions 2.0b4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/12576 (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19359 (vdb-entry)
marc.info/ (mailing-list, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)