CVE-2006-0437

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Phpbb Group Phpbb: 2.0.6c, 2.0.6d, 2.0.7, 2.0.7a, 2.0.8, 2.0.8a (+11)

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-February/041920.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18693
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/31
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/406
http://www.osvdb.org/22928
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0445
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24497
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-February/041920.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18693
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/31
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/406
http://www.osvdb.org/22928

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