CVE-2008-6767

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

wp-admin/upgrade.php in WordPress, probably 2.6.x, allows remote attackers to upgrade the application, and possibly cause a denial of service (application outage), via a direct request.

wp-admin/upgrade.php in WordPress, probably 2.6.x, allows remote attackers to upgrade the application, and possibly cause a denial of service (application outage), via a direct request.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 15 years ago

2009-04-28 16:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-17 01:29:00

Affected Software

WordPress 2.6

2.6

References

20081222 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] Wordpress is vulnerable to an unauthorized upgrade and XSS

Exploit

DSA-1871

wordpress-upgrade-sec-bypass(50384)

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