CVE-2006-5703

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in tiki-featured_link.php in Tikiwiki 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a url parameter that evades filtering, as demonstrated by a parameter value containing malformed, nested SCRIPT elements.

Published: 2006-11-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5703 is rated Exploit Available (55.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.41%). 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-2006-5703

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2701 exploit_db edb 2006-11-01 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5703

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 12.48% 2.41% -10.07%
2 2025-06-23 12.01% 12.48% +0.47%
3 2025-03-30 12.01%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5703

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-2006-5703

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5703

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5703: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5703
gentoo normal CVE-2006-5703: 1 GLSA(s) (200611-11), 1 atom(s) (www-apps/tikiwiki); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-5703
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-5703 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tikiwiki), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): DNE 2, needs-triage 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-5703

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5703

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
tiki tikiwiki_cms\/groupware 1.9.5 cpe:2.3:a:tiki:tikiwiki_cms\/groupware:1.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5703

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