CVE-2006-6808

published 2006-12-28

CVE-2006-6808: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the…

Priority P4 26 medium 6.8 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter. NOTE: some sources have reported this as a vulnerability in the get_file_description function in wp-admin/admin-functions.php.

Affected

23 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 2.0.6-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 2.0.6-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 2.0.5	—
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wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.6-1	2.0.6-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.6-1	2.0.6-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.6-1	2.0.6-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.6-1	2.0.6-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 6.8 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.8 MEDIUM

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