CVE-2006-1820

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in ModX 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter. NOTE: this might be resultant from the directory traversal vulnerability.

Published: 2006-04-18 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-1820 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.62%). Core evidence: 2 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-2006-1820

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
27648 exploit_db edb 2006-04-14 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1820

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 0.81% 0.62% -0.19%
2 2025-03-29 0.62% 0.81% +0.19%
3 2025-03-17 0.62%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-1820

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-1820

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-1820

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
modxcms modxcms 0.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:modxcms:modxcms:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-1820

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