CVE-2006-1196

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in QwikiWiki 1.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) from and (2) help parameters to (a) index.php; (3) action, (4) page, (5) debug, (6) help, (7) username, or (8) password parameters to (b) login.php; the (7) help parameter to (c) pageindex.php; or (8) help parameter to (d) recentchanges.php.

Published: 2006-03-13 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-1196 is rated Exploit Available (58.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.03%). Core evidence: 7 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-1196

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
27412 exploit_db edb 2006-03-10 Exploit-DB ↗
27411 exploit_db edb 2006-03-10 Exploit-DB ↗
27410 exploit_db edb 2006-03-10 Exploit-DB ↗
27409 exploit_db edb 2006-03-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1196

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-07-24 1.17% 1.03% -0.15%
2 2025-03-30 0.64% 1.17% +0.54%
3 2025-03-29 0.64%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-1196

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-1196

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-1196

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
david_barrett qwikiwiki 1.4 cpe:2.3:a:david_barrett:qwikiwiki:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
david_barrett qwikiwiki 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:david_barrett:qwikiwiki:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
david_barrett qwikiwiki 1.5.1 cpe:2.3:a:david_barrett:qwikiwiki:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-1196

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