CVE-2006-2059

Invision Power Board vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

7.9%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

action_public/search.php in Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.1.x and 2.0.x before 20060425 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a search with a crafted value of the lastdate parameter, which alters the behavior of a regular expression to add a "#e" (execute) modifier.

Affected vendor

Invision Power Services

Affected product

Invision Power Board

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published

2006-04-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 7.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2059

Confirm whether Invision Power Services Invision Power Board is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2059.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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