CVE-2006-2500

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in add_news.asp in CodeAvalanche News (CANews) 1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Headline field. NOTE: if this issue is limited to administrators, and if it is expected behavior for administrators to be able to generate HTML, then this is not a vulnerability.

Affected products

Xfairguy Codeavalanche News: 1.2

References

http://colander.altervista.org/advisory/CANews.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20171
http://www.osvdb.org/25653
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434730/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18032
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1870
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26587
http://colander.altervista.org/advisory/CANews.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20171
http://www.osvdb.org/25653
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434730/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18032

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