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CVE-2006-1979

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1979 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Manic Web MWGuest 2.1.0, specifically within the mwguest.php component. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the homepage parameter. With a CVSS score of 5.8, it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited over the network with medium attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure and integrity compromise. While not on CISA's KEV catalog and showing no active exploitation or community discussion, an exploit demonstrating HTML injection is available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:manic_web:mwguest:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27713 · Apr 20, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

evuln.com / vulns/122/summary.html
securityreason.com / securityalert/747
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25674
securityfocus.com / archive/1/431507/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/17630
Exploit