Vulnerability in Spip

CVE-2006-0518

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php3 in SPIP 1.8.2-e and earlier and 1.9 Alpha 2 (5539) and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the lang parameter.

Published 2006-02-02 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.039 (89.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Spip

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24401 (vdb-entry)
www.osvdb.org/22849 (vdb-entry)
www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=8650/ (Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/18676 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0398 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/16461 (vdb-entry)