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CVE-2006-6356

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6356 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the templates/link_temp.php file of PHPNews version 1.3.0. Attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various parameters like 'url', 'id', 'subject', 'username', or 'time'. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpnews:phpnews:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29218 · Dec 2, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 62nd 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/23214
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/1994
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30664
securityfocus.com / archive/1/453321/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21404
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4826