CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2334

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-07-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not require administrative authentication to access the configuration of a plugin, which allows remote attackers to specify a configuration file in the page parameter to obtain sensitive information or modify this file, as demonstrated by the (1) collapsing-archives/options.txt, (2) akismet/readme.txt, (3) related-ways-to-take-action/options.php, (4) wp-security-scan/securityscan.php, and (5) wp-ids/ids-admin.php files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial of service.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.7.1) • 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 2.3.3 … and 26 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References