PT-2009-5212 · Wordpress Foundation · Wordpress

Ryan · Published 2009-08-18 · Updated 2017-11-22 · CVE-2009-2854

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 2.8.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions by sending a direct request to certain API endpoints, including "edit-comments.php", "edit-pages.php", "edit.php", "edit-category-form.php", "edit-link-category-form.php", "edit-tag-form.php", "export.php", "import.php", or "link-add.php" in the wp-admin directory.

Recommendations For Wordpress versions prior to 2.8.3, update to version 2.8.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2854

DSA-1871-1

DSA-1871-2

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2854 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2854 · Security Note
• http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release · Vendor Advisory
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-2854 · Vendor Advisory
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2854 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2854 · Note