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high 7.5

CVE-2006-2667 in the critical feed json

Direct static code injection vulnerability in WordPress 2.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by insertin…

published 2006-05-30 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2666

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.5%
EPSS 14.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2667

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-6)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-6 WordPress Core 2.0.2 - 'cache' Remote Shell Injection webapps, 2006-05-25
  • retrogod.altervista.org http://retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.