6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-6808

Published: 28/12/2006 Updated: 29/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 685
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote malicious users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter. NOTE: some sources have reported this as a vulnerability in the get_file_description function in wp-admin/admin-functions.php.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #405691 wordpress: new upstream: 206 Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Kees Cook <kees@outfluxnet> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:18:21 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fo ...
Debian Bug report logs - #405299 FrSIRT/ADV-2006-5191: WordPress "get_file_description()" Function Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Enrique Garcia <kike+bt ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/21782/info Wordpress is prone to an HTML-injection scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would execute in the context of the affected site, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authenticatio ...