CVE-2006-2667

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26687

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18372

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435039/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/25777

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/20608

http://secunia.com/advisories/20271

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3