CVE-2006-6451

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SWsoft Plesk 8.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to (1) get_password.php or (2) login_up.php3.

Published: 2006-12-10 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-6451 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.27%). Core evidence: 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.75% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2006-6451

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
29018 exploit_db edb 2006-11-14 Exploit-DB ↗
29017 exploit_db edb 2006-11-14 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6451

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 0.52% 2.27% +1.75%
2 2025-09-20 0.40% 0.52% +0.12%
3 2025-03-17 0.40%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6451

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-2006-6451

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6451

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-6451: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6451

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6451

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
swsoft plesk <= 8.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:swsoft:plesk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
swsoft plesk 7.5 cpe:2.3:a:swsoft:plesk:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6451

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