CVE-2006-0437

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin_smilies.php in phpBB 2.0.19 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via Javascript events such as "onmouseover" in the (1) smile_url or (2) smile_emotion parameters, which bypasses a check for "<" and ">" characters.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24497

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0445

http://www.osvdb.org/22928

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/406

http://secunia.com/advisories/18693

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-February/041920.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-02-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00747