CVE-2006-6808: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.0.5; version 0.6.2 only; version 0.6.2.1 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.71 only; version 1.2 only; …

Published 2006-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.