CVE-2006-2667

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    CVE-2006-2667

    Published: 30 May 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/20271, http://secunia.com/advisories/20608, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992, http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/20271, 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, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26687

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High