CVE-2006-2184

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.php in PHPKB Knowledge Base allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchkeyword parameter. NOTE: the issue was originally disputed by the vendor, but on 20060519, the vendor notified CVE that "We have fixed all the mentioned issues and now the search section of PHPKB script is free from any XSS issues."

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1628

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000775.html

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000753.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/19913

http://d4igoro.blogspot.com/2006/05/phpkb-knowledge-base-xss.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-05-04

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: 0.00411