CVE-2006-6274

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SQL injection vulnerability in articles.asp in Expinion.net iNews (1) Publisher (iNP) 2.5 and earlier, and possibly (2) News Manager, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the ex parameter. NOTE: early reports of this issue reported it as XSS, but this was erroneous. The original report was for News Manager, but there is strong evidence that the correct product is Publisher.

Published: 2006-12-04 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6274 is rated High Exploit Risk (70/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.00%). 2 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-2006-6274

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6274

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 1.58% 2.00% +0.42%
2 2025-12-28 1.29% 1.58% +0.29%
3 2025-12-08 — 1.29% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6274

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-2006-6274

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6274

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6274: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6274

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6274

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
expinion.net inews_publisher <= 2.5 cpe:2.3:a:expinion.net:inews_publisher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
expinion.net news_manager — cpe:2.3:a:expinion.net:news_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6274

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