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CVE-2006-5226

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5226 describes a remote file inclusion vulnerability in Prologin.fr Freenews 1.1 and earlier, specifically within the moteur/moteur.php component. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by manipulating the 'chemin' parameter with a malicious URL. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a severe risk with easy exploitation and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog or showing active exploitation, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freenews:freenews:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2490 · Oct 8, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0268 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/1704
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29395
exploit-db.com / exploits/2490
securityfocus.com / archive/1/448019/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/20405
Exploit