CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-2667
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Direct static code injection vulnerability in WordPress 2.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting a carriage return and PHP code when updating a profile, which is appended after a special comment sequence into files in (1) wp-content/cache/userlogins/ (2) wp-content/cache/users/ which are later included by cache.php, as demonstrated using the displayname argument.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.0.2)
References
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20271 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20608 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/25777 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435039/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18372 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26687 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20271 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20608 secunia.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/25777 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435039/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18372 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26687 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com