XSS in Postnuke Software Foundation
CVE-2006-0800
Interpretation conflict in PostNuke 0.761 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML tags with a trailing "<" character, which is interpreted as a ">" character by some web browsers but bypasses the blacklist protection in (1) the pnVarCleanFromInput function in pnAPI.php, (2) the pnSecureInput function in pnAntiCracker.php, and (3) the htmltext parameter in an edituser operation to user.php.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.022 (81.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Postnuke Software Foundation — versions 0.7, 0.62, 0.63
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0673 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24823 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16752 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry)
- news.postnuke.com/index.php (Patch)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-02/0469.html (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/18937 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/454 (third-party-advisory)