CVE-2006-1796

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the paging links functionality in template-functions-links.php in Wordpress 1.5.2, and possibly other versions before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML to Internet Explorer users via the request URI ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0; 0.6.2-beta_2, 0.6.2.1-beta_2, 0.7, 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+10)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328909
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1686
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328909
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1686

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