Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-6040

Title: Jelsoft Vbulletin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-6040

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 22, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-6040: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in admincp/index.php in Jelsoft vBulletin 3.6.x allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the prefs parameter in a buildnavprefs action or (2) the navprefs parameter in a savenavprefs action.

Impacted Vendors

vbulletin 1

jelsoft 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/23011 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1903 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451959/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21157 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1256434 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4599 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30408 http://secunia.com/advisories/23011 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1903 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451959/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21157 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1256434 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4599 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30408

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-2006-6040 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29079

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.

November 22, 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.