Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5205

Title: Invision Power Services Invision Gallery Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-5205

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 10, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5205: Directory traversal vulnerability in Invision Gallery 2.0.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the dir parameter in (1) index.php and (2) forum/index.php, when the viewimage command in the gallery module is used.

Impacted Vendors

invision_power_services 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/22400 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20328 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29334 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2473 http://secunia.com/advisories/22400 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20328 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29334 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2473

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5205 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2473

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 10, 2006 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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.