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CVE-2006-1796

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the paging links functionality in template-functions-links.php in Wordpress

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the paging links functionality in template-functions-links.php in Wordpress 1.5.2, and possibly other versions before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML to Internet Explorer users via the request URI ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.00455
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2
wordpress<= 2.0
wordpressall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
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AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD17 Apr 2006 · 08:06 PM
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References & Sources

2
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328909Patch
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1686Patch
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