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CVE-2008-0196

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0196 describes multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier. Attackers can exploit these flaws by injecting ".." sequences into specific parameters, allowing them to read arbitrary files (e.g., wp-config) or modify files via wp-admin/templates.php. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0342 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
Exploit
securityreason.com / securityalert/3539
securityvulns.ru / Sdocument762.html
securityvulns.ru / Sdocument768.html
securityvulns.ru / Sdocument772.html
securityvulns.ru / Sdocument773.html
websecurity.com.ua / 1679
websecurity.com.ua / 1683
websecurity.com.ua / 1686
websecurity.com.ua / 1687
securityfocus.com / archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded