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CVE-2006-4712

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Sage 1.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via JavaScript in a content:encoded element within an item element in an RSS feed, as demonstrated by four example content:encoded elements that use XMLHttpRequest to read arbitrary local files, aka "Cross Context Scripting."

Affected products

• Sage: 1.3.6

References

• http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/sage-inputvalidation.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21839
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1558
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/cross-context-scripting-with-sage
• http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/08/09/Attack-Delivery-TestSuite
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445648/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19928
• http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=410
• http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=448
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3553
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28855
• http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/sage-inputvalidation.xml

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