CVE-2006-6016

WordPress Core < 2.0.5 - User Metadata Information Disclosure

2006-09-18 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.0.5
Affected Core: WordPress 2.0
Affected Version: <= 2.0.4
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2006-6016

At a glance

CVE-2006-6016 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the WordPress 2.0 WordPress release line, affecting <= 2.0.4. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 2.0.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2006, reported by adapter.

Vulnerability Overview

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.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in WordPress 2.0 <= 2.0.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For WordPress 2.0 the fix is 2.0.5: builds <= 2.0.4 are affected, anything from 2.0.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: updating to 2.0.5 is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6016 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91531e13-5344-442c-99d3-8ccfd61b715d https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6016

Related records

Same weakness class

Other vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.0

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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