CVE-2006-4706

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in inc/functions_post.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a url BBCode tag that contains a javascript URI with an SGML numeric character reference and an embedded space, as demonstrated using "java& #115;cript," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3761.

Affected products

Mybulletinboard: 1.1.7

References

http://myimei.com/security/2006-08-15/mybb-117-htmlspeacialchar_uni-fixjavascript-functions_postphp-urlxss-attack.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21697
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1541
http://www.mybboard.com/archive.php?nid=18
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444807/100/100/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3418
http://myimei.com/security/2006-08-15/mybb-117-htmlspeacialchar_uni-fixjavascript-functions_postphp-urlxss-attack.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/21697
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1541
http://www.mybboard.com/archive.php?nid=18
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444807/100/100/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3418

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