CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2854
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.8.2)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765 Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766 Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765 Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766 Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory