CVE-2006-0996 EXPLOIT
4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 11.1% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpinfo (info.c) in PHP 5.1.2 and 4.4.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via long array variables, including (1) a large number of dimensions or (2) long values, which prevents HTML tags from being removed.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| EPSS | 11.06% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-79 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-04-10 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| php | php |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | PHP 4.x/5.0/5.1 - PHPInfo Large Input Cross-Site Scripting | 2006-04-03 |
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc
- http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/info.c
- http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/info.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261
- http://marc.info/?l=php-cvs&m=114374620416389&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19599
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19775
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19832
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20052
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20210
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20222
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20951
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21125
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21252
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21564
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-08.xml
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/34
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/675
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