CVE-2006-6197

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in b2evolution 1.8.2 through 1.9 beta allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) app_name parameter in (a) _404_not_found.page.php, (b) _410_stats_gone.page.php, and (c) _referer_spam.page.php in inc/VIEW/errors/; the (2) baseurl parameter in (d) inc/VIEW/errors/_404_not_found.page.php; and the (3) ReqURI parameter in (e) inc/VIEW/errors/_referer_spam.page.php.

Published: 2006-12-01 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6197 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.21%). Core evidence: 4 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-2006-6197

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
29200 exploit_db edb 2006-11-16 Exploit-DB ↗
29199 exploit_db edb 2006-11-16 Exploit-DB ↗
29198 exploit_db edb 2006-11-16 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6197

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 2025-12-23 1.35% 1.21% -0.14%
2 2025-09-11 1.16% 1.35% +0.19%
3 2025-07-27 1.16%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6197

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-2006-6197

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6197

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-6197: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6197

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6197

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
b2evolution b2evolution 1.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:b2evolution:b2evolution:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b2evolution b2evolution 1.9_beta cpe:2.3:a:b2evolution:b2evolution:1.9_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6197

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