CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4769

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the get_category_template function in wp-includes/theme.php in WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier, and 2.5, allows remote attackers to include and possibly execute arbitrary PHP files via the cat parameter in index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.3.3) • wordpress wordpress 0.6.2 • wordpress wordpress 0.6.2.1 • wordpress wordpress 0.7 • wordpress wordpress 0.71 • wordpress wordpress 0.71-gold • wordpress wordpress 0.72 • wordpress wordpress 0.711 • wordpress wordpress 1.0 • wordpress wordpress 1.0-platinum • wordpress wordpress 1.0.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.0.1-miles • wordpress wordpress 1.0.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.0.2-blakey • wordpress wordpress 1.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.2-delta • wordpress wordpress 1.2-mingus • wordpress wordpress 1.2.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.2.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.3.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.4 • wordpress wordpress 1.5 • wordpress wordpress 1.5-strayhorn • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.6 • wordpress wordpress 2.0 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.4 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.5 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.6 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.7 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.8 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.9 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 rc1 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 rc2 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.11 • wordpress wordpress 2.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 rc1 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 rc2 • wordpress wordpress 2.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.0 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.2 revision5002 • wordpress wordpress 2.2 revision5003 • wordpress wordpress 2.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.3.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.3.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References