Vulnerability in phpBB Group
CVE-2006-6421
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the private message box implementation (privmsg.php) in phpBB 2.0.x allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Message body" field in a message to a non-existent user.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.156 (96.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.156 · newest: 0.156 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- phpBB Group — versions 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30776 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456579/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456728/100/100/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22001 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21806 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456784/100/100/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453774/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/23283 (third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2005 (third-party-advisory)