CVE-2006-0996

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpinfo (info.c) in PHP 5.1.2 and 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via long array variables, including (1) a large number of dimensions or (2) long values, which prevents HTML tags from being removed.

Affected products

PHP: 4.4.2, 5.1.2

References

http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/info.c
http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/info.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
http://marc.info/?l=php-cvs&m=114374620416389&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19599
http://secunia.com/advisories/19775
http://secunia.com/advisories/19832
http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
http://secunia.com/advisories/20052
http://secunia.com/advisories/20210

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