PT-2008-3659 · Wordpress Foundation · Wordpress

Xknown · Published 2008-05-12 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-2146

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wordpress versions prior to 2.2.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages due to improper extraction of the current path from the PATH INFO ($PHP SELF) in wp-includes/vars.php.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.2.3, update to version 2.2.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2146

DSA-1564-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 10

• 🔥 http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6029 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.2.2&old=6063&new_path=tags%2F2.2.3&new=6063#file10 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2146 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2146 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2146 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2146 · Vendor Advisory
• http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4748 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42379 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/45188 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2146 · Note