CVE-2005-1688 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Wordpress 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to files in (1) wp-content/themes/, (2) wp-includes/, or (3) wp-admin/, which reveal the path in an error message.

Published: 2005-05-25

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00622.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111661517716733&w=2

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00618}`	epss `{'score': 0.00622}`

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-25T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-16T18:43:51.233Z

Reserved: 2005-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1688

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:59:24.035Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-1688

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-425

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