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CVE-2006-1968

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1968 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in KCScripts News Publisher (and Portal Pack 6.0 and earlier), allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort_order parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kcscripts:kcscripts_news_publisher:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kcscripts:portal_pack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

pridels0.blogspot.com / 2006/04/portal-pack-6-xss-vuln.html
secunia.com / advisories/19695
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25940
osvdb.org / 24762
securityfocus.com / bid/17628
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1440