CVE-2006-2966 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Particle Soft Particle Wiki 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a BR element with an extraneous IMG tag and a STYLE attribute that contains "/**/" comment sequences, which bypasses the XSS protection scheme

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Particle Soft Particle Wiki 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a BR element with an extraneous IMG tag and a STYLE attribute that contains "/**/" comment sequences, which bypasses the XSS protection scheme

Published Jun 12, 2006

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.20%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Particle Soft Particle Wiki 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a BR element with an extraneous IMG tag and a STYLE attribute that contains "/**/" comment sequences, which bypasses the XSS protection scheme.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.20% 0.02198

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02198

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 (14 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.20% (0.02198)	81.86th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.40% (0.01398)	68.80th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.78% (0.00778)	71.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.31% (0.01311)	86.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 1, 2024	1.31% (0.01311)	86.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 23, 2023	6.63% (0.06634)	93.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 5, 2023	8.72% (0.08724)	93.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 16, 2023	8.24% (0.08235)	93.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 9, 2023	5.92% (0.05918)	92.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	3.52% (0.03518)	90.10th	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 (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1070
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436121/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2170
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26952
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1070		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436121/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2170		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26952		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 12, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jun 12, 2006

Link CVE-2006-2966

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-2966

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-2966