CVE-2006-2667
HIGHEPSS 96th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20271
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20608
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml
- http://www.osvdb.org/25777
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435039/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18372
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26687
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