CVE-2006-1640

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in news.php in CzarNews 1.14 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email parameter.

Published: 2006-04-06 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-1640 is rated Low Risk (35.4/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.79%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1640

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 2025-03-30 0.85% 0.79% -0.06%
2 2025-03-29 0.79% 0.85% +0.06%
3 2025-03-17 0.79%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-1640

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/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:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
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.
4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-1640

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-1640

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
czaries_network czarnews 1.14 cpe:2.3:a:czaries_network:czarnews:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-1640

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