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CVE-2008-2146

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
12/05/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

wp-includes/vars.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 does not properly extract the current path from the PATH_INFO ($PHP_SELF), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages.

Impact

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

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.2.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.6.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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