CVE-2006-6808 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-6808

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

wordpress
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.6.2, 0.6.2.1, 0.7, 0.71, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4

Timeline

Official Publish: December 28th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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