National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2184

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in search.php in PHPKB Knowledge Base allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchkeyword parameter. NOTE: the issue was originally disputed by the vendor, but on 20060519, the vendor notified CVE that "We have fixed all the mentioned issues and now the search section of PHPKB script is free from any XSS issues."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1628

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1628

External Source: VIM

Name: 20060519 Resolved PHPKB vendor dispute (CVE-2006-2184)

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000775.html

External Source: VIM

Name: 20060512 Vendor dispute of CVE-2006-2184

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-May/000753.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19913

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19913

External Source: MISC

Name: http://d4igoro.blogspot.com/2006/05/phpkb-knowledge-base-xss.html

Hyperlink:http://d4igoro.blogspot.com/2006/05/phpkb-knowledge-base-xss.html