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CVE-2009-2853

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
18/08/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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/.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:beta_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.72:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.72:beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.72:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.72:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.711:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.1:miles:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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