CVE-2006-6996

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in warforge.NEWS 1.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the (1) title and (2) newspost parameters to (a) newsadd.php, and the (3) name, title, and (4) comment parameters to (b) news.php, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-1818. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

The War Forge Warforge.News: 1.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19697
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25901
http://secunia.com/advisories/19697
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25901

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