CVE-2006-1040 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 3.0.12 and 3.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email field, which is injected in profile.php but not sanitized in sendmsg.php.

Published: 2006-03-07

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: 2.6% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.0.12:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:jelsoft:vbulletin:3.5.3:::::::*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-1044	Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 3.0.12 and 3.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email field, which is injected in profile.php but not sanitized in sendmsg.php.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02603.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/19100
http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-266.html
http://www.osvdb.org/23614
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426537/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426589/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16919
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1079030
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0808

History

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Subscriptions

Jelsoft Vbulletin

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-03-07T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:56:15.173Z

Reserved: 2006-03-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1040

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-03-07T11:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T22:21:54.427

Link: CVE-2006-1040

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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