CVE-2006-5530

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Boesch SimpNews before 2.34.01 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to (1) admin/index.php, (2) admin/pwlost.php, and unspecified other files. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

Published: 2006-10-26 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5530 is rated Exploit Available (58.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.62%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.16% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2006-5530

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28859 exploit_db edb 2006-10-24 Exploit-DB ↗
28858 exploit_db edb 2006-10-24 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5530

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 0.46% 1.62% +1.16%
2 2026-04-26 0.35% 0.46% +0.11%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.35% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5530

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-2006-5530

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5530

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5530: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5530

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5530

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
boesch_it-consulting simpnews <= 2.34 cpe:2.3:a:boesch_it-consulting:simpnews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
boesch_it-consulting simpnews 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:boesch_it-consulting:simpnews:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
boesch_it-consulting simpnews 2.13 cpe:2.3:a:boesch_it-consulting:simpnews:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
boesch_it-consulting simpnews 2.30 cpe:2.3:a:boesch_it-consulting:simpnews:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5530

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