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CVE-2006-6016

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

wp-admin/user-edit.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to read the metadata of an arbitrary user via a modified user_id parameter.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 2.0.4

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
• http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3142
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
• http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3142
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml

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