CVE-2006-6808
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 6.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter. NOTE: some sources have reported this as a vulnerability in the get_file_description function in wp-admin/admin-functions.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Core 1.x/2.0.x - 'template.php' HTML Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 29356webapps, phppublished 27 Dec 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.9% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- ADV-2006-5191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23587 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23741 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4665 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200701-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 21782 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20061227 WordPress Persistent XSS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- wordpress-getfiledescription-xss(31133) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://michaeldaw.org/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-6791 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-6808)Record last updated .