CVE-2006-6808 (GCVE-0-2006-6808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-28 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:42
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/23587 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23741 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4665 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-10.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21782 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=11672212863… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://michaeldaw.org/ x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2006-12-27 00:00
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