CVE-2006-4577

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Address Book 1.04e allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via Javascript events in the (1) email, (2) websites, and (3) groupAddName parameters in (a) save.php; the (4) errorMsg parameter in (b) index.php; and the (5) goTo and (6) search parameters in (c) search.php.

Published: 2006-12-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-4577 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.57%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-4577

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-4577

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 2.19% 1.57% -0.62%
2 2026-01-27 1.80% 2.19% +0.40%
3 2025-10-14 — 1.80% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-4577

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-2006-4577

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-4577

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-4577: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-4577

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-4577

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
the_address_book the_address_book 1.04e cpe:2.3:a:the_address_book:the_address_book:1.04e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-4577

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