CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6017

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

WordPress before 2.0.5 does not properly store a profile containing a string representation of a serialized object, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that represents a (1) malformed or (2) large serialized object, because the object triggers automatic unserialization for display.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.0.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References