CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5695
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
wp-admin/options.php in WordPress MU before 1.3.2, and WordPress 2.3.2 and earlier, does not properly validate requests to update an option, which allows remote authenticated users with manage_options and upload_files capabilities to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP script and adding this script's pathname to active_plugins.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.3.2)
• wordpress wordpress mu (< 1.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28789 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28789 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry