CVE-2006-5504

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a base64 encoded params value in the action parameter.

Affected products

Simple Machines Forum: 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.1_rc1, 1.1_rc2, 1.1_rc3

References

http://osvdb.org/31070
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449307/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449395/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449478/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29689
http://osvdb.org/31070
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449307/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449395/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449478/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29689

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