CVE-2005-2612 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2612?

CVE-2005-2612 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Wordpress Wordpress, published on 17 Aug 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Direct code injection vulnerability in WordPress 1.5.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the cache_lastpostdate[server] cookie.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2612?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wordpress Wordpress.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2612?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2005-2612 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-2612 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2612, GHSA-73gj-5f8g-vq97.