CVE-2005-2042

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2005-2042 · Published 16/06/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2042 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting ajax-spell (ajax-spell).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ajax-spell ajax-spell	`= 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.4= 1.5= 1.6= 1.7`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ajax-spell before 1.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via onmouseover or other events in HTML tags.

References

secunia.com/advisories/15737 · Patch
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php · Patch
broken-notebook.com/spell_checker/index.php · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/13986 · Patch

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