What is CVE-2013-20005?

CVE-2013-20005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qool Cms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-03-16.

How severe is CVE-2013-20005?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

XSS in Qool Cms

CVE-2013-20005

Qool CMS 2.0 RC2 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform administrative actions by tricking logged-in users into visiting malicious web pages. Attackers can forge POST requests to the /admin/adduser endpoint with parameters like username, password, email, and level to create root-level user accounts without user consent.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (14.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Qool Cms — versions 2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (exploit)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-20005?: CVE-2013-20005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qool Cms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-03-16.
How severe is CVE-2013-20005?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.