Medium severity · published Nov 21, 2006
CVE-2006-6016
wp-admin/user-edit.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to read the metadata of an arbitrary user via a modified user_id parameter
6.5
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
wp-admin/user-edit.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to read the metadata of an arbitrary user via a modified user_id parameter.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WO
WordPress · WordPress
through 2.0.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6016
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6016
bugs.gentoo.org
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
trac.wordpress.org
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3142
Patch
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml
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