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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6978

Original release date:02/08/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Basic Toolbar Selection" in FCKEditor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via the javascript: URI in the (1) href or (2) onmouseover attribute of the A HTML tag.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: XF
Name: freetextbox-fckeditor-javascipt-xss(26539)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26539
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060514 XSS in FreeTextBox and FCKEditor Basic Toolbar Selection
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/434006/30/4980/threaded
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.newffr.com/viewtopic.php?forum=26&topic=11683
Hyperlink:http://www.newffr.com/viewtopic.php?forum=26&topic=11683

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6978