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FKIE_CVE-2006-6996

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-02-12 11:28 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:34

Severity

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in warforge.NEWS 1.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the (1) title and (2) newspost parameters to (a) newsadd.php, and the (3) name, title, and (4) comment parameters to (b) news.php, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-1818. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/19697
	cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25901
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/19697
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25901

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	the_war_forge	warforge.news	1.0

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CVE-2006-6996 (GCVE-0-2006-6996)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-12 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2266 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/19697	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2006-04-19 00:00

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