CVE-2006-1796: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the paging links functionality in template-functions-links.php in Wordpress 1.5.2, and possibly other versions before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML to Internet Explorer users via the request URI ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.0; version 0.6.2 only; version 0.6.2.1 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.71 only; version 1.0 only; …

Published 2006-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.