CVE-2006-2702

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-2702 · Published 31/05/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-2702 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting wordpress (wordpress).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 87.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wordpress wordpress	`= 2.0.2`	No fix yet

Description

vars.php in WordPress 2.0.2, possibly when running on Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to spoof their IP address via a PC_REMOTE_ADDR HTTP header, which vars.php uses to redefine $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].

References

retrogod.altervista.org/wordpress_202_xpl.html · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/20271 · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/20608
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-08.xml
osvdb.org/25935
securityfocus.com/archive/1/435039/100/0/threaded
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1992
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26688

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

wordpress

= 2.0.2

No fix yet

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