CVE-2006-5530

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2006-5530 · Published 26/10/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5530 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting simpnews (boesch it-consulting).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simpnews boesch_it-consulting	`= 2.0.1= 2.13= 2.30≤ 2.34`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Boesch SimpNews before 2.34.01 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to (1) admin/index.php, (2) admin/pwlost.php, and unspecified other files. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

References

secunia.com/advisories/22535 · Patch
boesch-it.de/sw/php-scripts/simpnews/english/index.php · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/20714 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4162

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