CVE-2006-6017

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% 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-400

Description

WordPress before 2.0.5 does not properly store a profile containing a string representation of a serialized object, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that represents a (1) malformed or (2) large serialized object, because the object triggers automatic unserialization for display.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0.5

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2591
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/2591
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml

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