CVE-2006-2667

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-30 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

WordPress: through 2.0.2

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
http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20271
http://secunia.com/advisories/20608

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