CVE-2005-2638: Phpfreenews

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PHPFreeNews 1.40 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) NewsMode parameter to NewsCategoryForm.php, or the (2) Match or (3) NewsMode parameter to SearchResults.php.

Affected products

• Phpfreenews Phpfreenews: version 1.40 only

Published 2005-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.