CVE-2006-1779

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in login.php in Jeremy Ashcraft Simplog 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the btag parameter.

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

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-1779 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.77%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 1 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-2006-1779

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1663 exploit_db edb 2006-04-11 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1779

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 2026-06-15 18.69% 5.77% -12.93%
2 2025-08-24 16.50% 18.69% +2.19%
3 2025-03-30 16.50%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-1779

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-1779

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-1779

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
simplog simplog <= 0.9.2 cpe:2.3:a:simplog:simplog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-1779

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