CVE-2006-5059

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WWWthreads 5.4.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Cat parameter to (1) dosearch.php, (2) postlist.php, (3) showmembers.php, (4) faq_english.php, (5) online.php, (6) login.php, (7) newuser.php, (8) wwwthreads.php, (9) search.php, or (10) postlist.php.

Published: 2006-09-28 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5059 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.29%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-5059

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5059

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 2025-10-22 1.05% 1.29% +0.24%
2 2025-05-17 0.68% 1.05% +0.38%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.68% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5059

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.1 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/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:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
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.
 4.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5059

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5059

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5059: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5059

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5059

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
wired_community_software wwwthreads <= 5.4.2 cpe:2.3:a:wired_community_software:wwwthreads:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wired_community_software wwwthreads 5.4 cpe:2.3:a:wired_community_software:wwwthreads:5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wired_community_software wwwthreads rc3 cpe:2.3:a:wired_community_software:wwwthreads:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5059

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