CVE-2006-6978

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Basic Toolbar Selection" in FCKEditor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via the javascript: URI in the (1) href or (2) onmouseover attribute of the A HTML tag.

Affected products

Fckeditor: all versions

References

http://www.newffr.com/viewtopic.php?forum=26&topic=11683
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434006/30/4980/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26539
http://www.newffr.com/viewtopic.php?forum=26&topic=11683
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434006/30/4980/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26539

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