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CVE-2006-6017

MEDIUM

6.5

Description

WordPress before 2.0.5 does not properly store a profile containing a string representation of a serialized object, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that represents a (1) malformed or (2) large serialized object, because the object triggers automatic unserialization for display.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published11/21/2006

Last Modified4/9/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

wordpress:wordpress

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303(cve@mitre.org)

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2591(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml(cve@mitre.org)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2591(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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