CVE-2006-2966

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Particle Soft Particle Wiki 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a BR element with an extraneous IMG tag and a STYLE attribute that contains "/**/" comment sequences, which bypasses the XSS protection scheme.

Published: 2006-06-12 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-2966 is rated Moderate Risk (43.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.93%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-2966

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 2025-07-06 0.78% 0.93% +0.15%
2 2025-03-30 0.97% 0.78% -0.20%
3 2025-03-29 0.97%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-2966

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-2006-2966

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-2966

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
particle_soft particle_wiki 1.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:particle_soft:particle_wiki:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-2966

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