CVE-2006-5453

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Bugzilla 2.18.x before 2.18.6, 2.20.x before 2.20.3, 2.22.x before 2.22.1, and 2.23.x before 2.23.3 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) page headers using the H1, H2, and H3 HTML tags in global/header.html.tmpl, (2) description fields of certain items in various edit cgi scripts, and (3) the id parameter in showdependencygraph.cgi.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.18, 2.18-rc1, 2.18-rc2, 2.18-rc3, 2.18.1, 2.18.2 (+12)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22409
http://secunia.com/advisories/22790
http://secunia.com/advisories/22826
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-04.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1760
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017063
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.18.5/
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1208
http://www.osvdb.org/29544
http://www.osvdb.org/29545
http://www.osvdb.org/29549
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448777/100/100/threaded

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