CVE-2006-5059

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WWWthreads 5.4.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Cat parameter to (1) dosearch.php, (2) postlist.php, (3) showmembers.php, (4) faq_english.php, (5) online.php, (6) login.php, (7) newuser.php, (8) wwwthreads.php, (9) search.php, or (10) postlist.php.

Affected products

Wired Community Software Wwwthreads: through 5.4.2; 5.4, rc3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22211
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1645
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446911/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20178
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3858
http://secunia.com/advisories/22211
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1645
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446911/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20178
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3858

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