CVE-2006-2420

Published May 16, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
Bugzilla 2.20rc1 through 2.20 and 2.21.1, when using RSS 1.0, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a title element with HTML encoded sequences such as ">", which are automatically decoded by some RSS readers. NOTE: this issue is not in Bugzilla itself, but rather due to design or documentation inconsistencies within RSS, or implementation vulnerabilities in RSS readers. While this issue normally would not be included in CVE, it is being identified since the Bugzilla developers have addressed it.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-2421 Bugzilla 2.20rc1 through 2.20 and 2.21.1, when using RSS 1.0, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a title element with HTML encoded sequences such as ">", which are automatically decoded by some RSS readers. NOTE: this issue is not in Bugzilla itself, but rather due to design or documentation inconsistencies within RSS, or implementation vulnerabilities in RSS readers. While this issue normally would not be included in CVE, it is being identified since the Bugzilla developers have addressed it.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:51 PM
Reserved
May 15, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 16, 2006, 10:02 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:24 PM