CVE-2006-0986: Medium severity WordPress vulnerability

Published Mar 3, 2006

Updated

WordPress 2.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to (1) default-filters.php, (2) template-loader.php, (3) rss-functions.php, (4) locale.php, (5) wp-db.php, and (6) kses.php in the wp-includes/ directory; and (7) edit-form-advanced.php, (8) admin-functions.php, (9) edit-link-form.php, (10) edit-page-form.php, (11) admin-footer.php, and (12) menu.php in the wp-admin directory; and possibly (13) list directory contents of the wp-includes directory. NOTE: the vars.php, edit-form.php, wp-settings.php, and edit-form-comment.php vectors are already covered by CVE-2005-4463. The menu-header.php vector is already covered by CVE-2005-2110. Other vectors might be covered by CVE-2005-1688. NOTE: if the typical installation of WordPress does not list any site-specific files to wp-includes, then vector [13] is not an exposure.

Affected Software

10 affected components

WordPress=1.0

WordPress=1.0.1

WordPress=1.0.2

WordPress=1.2

WordPress=1.5

WordPress=1.5.1

WordPress=1.5.1.2

WordPress=1.5.1.3

WordPress=2.0

WordPress=2.0.1

Remediation

Patch Available

http://NeoSecurityTeam.net/advisories/Advisory-17.txt

Event History

Mar 3, 2006

CVE Published

11:02 AM

CVE Published

via MITRE·04:00 PM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·04:00 PM

Description

Frequently Asked Questions

Is CVE-2006-0986 targeted by specific types of attacks?

CVE-2006-0986 can be targeted by remote attackers using direct requests to the affected PHP files to obtain sensitive information.