Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-4273

Title: Jelsoft Vbulletin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-4273

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Aug 21, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-4273: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Jelsoft vBulletin 3.5.4 and 3.6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an attachment with a .pdf extension that contains JavaScript, which is processed as script by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.

Impacted Vendors

J
jelsoft 1
V
vbulletin 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-08/0074.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-08/0082.html http://www.osvdb.org/27778 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442488/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19334 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28239 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-08/0074.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-08/0082.html http://www.osvdb.org/27778 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442488/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19334 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28239
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-4273 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28342
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.