CVE-2006-2506

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: 2006-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in search.php in Sphider allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the PATH_INFO and (2) the category parameter.

Affected products

Sphider: 1.3, 1.3_rc1, 1.3_rc2, 1.3b

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/930
http://soot.shabgard.org/bugs/Sphider.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/25573
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434119/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17997
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1845
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26482
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/930
http://soot.shabgard.org/bugs/Sphider.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/25573
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434119/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17997

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