CVE-2006-6661

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Variable overwrite vulnerability in blog.php in PHP-Update 2.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary program variables and execute arbitrary PHP code via multiple vectors that use the extract function, as demonstrated by the (1) f, (2) newmessage, (3) newusername, (4) adminuser, and (5) permission parameters.

Affected products

Php-Update: through 2.7

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23407
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5088
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2953
http://secunia.com/advisories/23407
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5088
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2953

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