PT-2006-6663 · WordPress · Wordpress

Adapter + 1 · Published 2006-11-21 · Updated 2025-04-03 · CVE-2006-6016

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 2.0.5

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to read the metadata of an arbitrary user via a modified user id parameter in the 'wp-admin/user-edit.php' page.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.5, update to version 2.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6016

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-6016 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6016 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6016 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-6016 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6016 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117587 · Telegram Post
• http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3142 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303 · Note