CVE-2006-0063 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a permitted HTML tag with ' (single quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover, a variant of CVE-2005-4357

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a permitted HTML tag with ' (single quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover, a variant of CVE-2005-4357

Published Jan 5, 2006

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.28%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a permitted HTML tag with ' (single quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover, a variant of CVE-2005-4357.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.28% 0.01283

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01283

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	1.28% (0.01283)	69.09th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.25% (0.01253)	65.47th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.41% (0.00409)	59.16th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.43% (0.00427)	75.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.43% (0.00430)	73.75th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 31, 2023	0.43% (0.00430)	70.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.40% (0.00403)	69.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/30
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRESExploitVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/313
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.osvdb.org/22672
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0051
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/30		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRESExploitVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/313		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.osvdb.org/22672		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0051		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 5, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 3, 2006

Link CVE-2006-0063

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-0063

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-0063