CVE-2006-5729

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2006-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Yazd Discussion Forum before 3.0 beta does not properly manage forum permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to (1) reply to a message in an arbitrary forum, if authorized to create a message in any forum; and (2) perform certain unauthorized forum actions, related to an "error in how the permissions were assembled" that assigns extra permissions to users.

Affected products

Yazd Discussion Forum: 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22690
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=39239&release_id=460547
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20889
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29994
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29996
http://secunia.com/advisories/22690
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=39239&release_id=460547
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20889
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29994
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29996

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