PT-2008-2286 · WordPress · Wordpress

Tomas Hoger · Published 2008-02-08 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2008-0664

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 2.3.3

Description The issue concerns the XML-RPC implementation in WordPress, specifically the xmlrpc.php file. When registration is enabled, it allows remote attackers to edit posts of other blog users.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.3, update to version 2.3.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0664

DSA-1601-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 17

• http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233 · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27669 · Patch
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00349.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00416.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28823 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0664 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0664 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-0664 · Vendor Advisory
• http://village-idiot.org/archives/2008/02/02/wordpress-232-exploit-confirmed · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431547 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019316 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0448 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30960 · Note