Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5524

Title: Phplist Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-5524

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 26, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5524: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in phplist 2.10.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the p parameter. NOTE: This issue might overlap CVE-2006-5321.

Impacted Vendors

phplist 1

paul_beaney 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/22431 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1779 http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2006/Oct/1017102.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448923/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20577/info http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4084 http://secunia.com/advisories/22431 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1779 http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2006/Oct/1017102.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448923/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20577/info http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4084

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-2006-5524 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28824

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 26, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.