CVE-2006-1040 EXPLOIT
4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.6% (pctl 85)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 3.0.12 and 3.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email field, which is injected in profile.php but not sanitized in sendmsg.php.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| EPSS | 2.6% — more likely to be exploited than 85% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-03-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| jelsoft | vbulletin |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | vBulletin 3.0/3.5 - 'profile.php?Email' HTML Injection | 2006-03-02 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19100
- http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-266.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/23614
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426537/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426589/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16919
- http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1079030
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0808
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19100
- http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-266.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/23614
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426537/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426589/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16919
- http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1079030
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0808
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