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CVE-2006-3253

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3253 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 3.5.x, specifically within the member.php component, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'u' parameter. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity and a potential impact of partial information disclosure. Despite the vendor disputing the report, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.0_beta_1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.0_beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.0_beta_2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.0_beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.0_beta_3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.0_beta_3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.0_beta_4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.0_beta_4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-28076 · Jun 20, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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

securityreason.com / securityalert/1155
securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27261
osvdb.org / 27508
securityfocus.com / archive/1/437817/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/438364/100/100/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/18551