CVE-2006-4706
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in inc/functions_post.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.1.7 allows remote attackers to inject…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in inc/functions_post.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a url BBCode tag that contains a javascript URI with an SGML numeric character reference and an embedded space, as demonstrated using "java& #115;cript," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3761.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- 21697 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1541 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3418 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20060830 [KAPDA]MyBB 1.1.7~ htmlspeacialchar_uni(), fixjavascript(), functions_post.php ~[url]XSS attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://myimei.com/security/2006-08-15/mybb-117-htmlspeacialchar_uni-fixjavascript-functions_postphp-urlxss-attack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.mybboard.com/archive.php?nid=18 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-4693 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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