CVE-2006-2228

w-Agora 4.2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting via BBCode Tag Event Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-2228. PoCs published by r0xes.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in W-Agora 4.20 due to improper input sanitization. The provided PoC uses a simple HTML/JavaScript payload to trigger an alert, proving the vulnerability.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in w-Agora (aka Web-Agora) 4.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a post with a BBCode tag that contains a JavaScript event name followed by whitespace before the '=' (equals) character, which bypasses a restrictive regular expression that attempts to remove onmouseover and other events.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by r0xes · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27783

The exploit demonstrates a stored XSS vulnerability in W-Agora 4.20 due to improper input sanitization. The provided PoC uses a simple HTML/JavaScript payload to trigger an alert, proving the vulnerability.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: W-Agora 4.20
No auth needed
Prerequisites: W-Agora configured to store user information in session data
MITRE ATT&CK
mistral-large-3 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/847
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432457/100/0/threaded
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17751

Scores

EPSS 0.0206
EPSS Percentile 79.0%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
w-agora/w-agora 4.2.0
Published May 05, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026