CVE-2009-2853

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

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

Type

WordPress

First reported 15 years ago

2009-08-18 21:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-11-16 20:30:00

Affected Software

WordPress 0.71

0.71

WordPress 0.71 Beta

0.71

WordPress 0.72 Release Candidate 1

0.72

WordPress 0.711

0.711

WordPress 1.0

1.0

WordPress 1.0.1 Release Candidate 1

1.0.1

WordPress 1.2

1.2

WordPress 1.2 Beta

1.2

WordPress 1.2 Release Candidate 1

1.2

WordPress 1.2.1

1.2.1

WordPress 1.2.2

1.2.2

WordPress 1.5

1.5

WordPress 1.5.1

1.5.1

WordPress 1.5.1.3

1.5.1.3

WordPress 1.5.2

1.5.2

WordPress 2.0

2.0

WordPress 2.0.1

2.0.1

WordPress 2.0.2

2.0.2

WordPress 2.0.3

2.0.3

WordPress 2.0.4

2.0.4

WordPress 2.0.6

2.0.6

WordPress 2.0.7

2.0.7

WordPress 2.0.9

2.0.9

WordPress 2.0.10

2.0.10

WordPress 2.0.11

2.0.11

WordPress 2.1.1

2.1.1

WordPress 2.1.2

2.1.2

WordPress 2.1.3

2.1.3

WordPress 2.2

2.2

WordPress 2.2.1

2.2.1

WordPress 2.2.2

2.2.2

WordPress 2.2.3

2.2.3

WordPress 2.3

2.3

WordPress 2.3 Beta3

2.3

WordPress 2.3 Release Candidate 1

2.3

WordPress 2.3.1

2.3.1

WordPress 2.3.1 Release Candidate 1

2.3.1

WordPress 2.3.2

2.3.2

WordPress 2.5

2.5

WordPress 2.5.1

2.5.1

WordPress 2.6

2.6

WordPress 2.6.1

2.6.1

WordPress 2.6.2

2.6.2

WordPress 2.6.3

2.6.3

WordPress 2.7.1

2.7.1

WordPress 2.8

2.8

WordPress 2.8.1

2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.2

2.8.2

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11768

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11769

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-1871

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20090804 CVE request: Wordpress

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

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