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CVE-2006-4917

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4917 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PT News version 1.7.8, specifically within the search.php component, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'pgname' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a network-based attack vector and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure (P) but no confidentiality or availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pt_news:pt_news:1.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-28601 · Sep 18, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0435 is in the 87th 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

secunia.com / advisories/22028
securityreason.com / securityalert/1612
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29043
securityfocus.com / archive/1/446417/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/20090
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3713