CVE-2006-1957

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The com_rss option (rss.php) in (1) Mambo and (2) Joomla! allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and possibly web-server outage) via multiple requests with different values of the feed parameter.

Affected products

Joomla!: all versions
Mambo-Foundation Mambo: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0380.html
http://irannetjob.com/content/view/209/28/
http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-313.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431317/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26131
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0380.html
http://irannetjob.com/content/view/209/28/
http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-313.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431317/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26131

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