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CVE-2006-1040

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1040 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin versions 3.0.12 and 3.5.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the email field, which is improperly sanitized when displayed in sendmsg.php after being entered in profile.php. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), successful exploitation requires medium attack complexity and could lead to information disclosure (C:P). While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No), exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB (EDB-27343), though there is no evidence of Metasploit or Nuclei modules, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
2.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27343 · Mar 2, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0254 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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/19100
kapda.ir / advisory-266.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 23614
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426537/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426589/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16919
vbulletin.com / forum/showthread.php
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0808