Cross-site scripting in PHP - CVE-2006-0208

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Cross-site scripting in PHP - CVE-2006-0208

Published: October 30, 2018 / Updated: June 8, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU110496
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: []
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0208
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in PHP 4.4.1 and 5.1.1, when display_errors and html_errors are on, when processing inputs to PHP applications that are not filtered when they are included in the resulting error message. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

PHP
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php

How to mitigate CVE-2006-0208

Install update from vendor's website.

PHP - addressed in versions 4.0.7, 4.4.3, 4.10, 5.1.2
dev-lang/php - update to 5.6.28

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