CVE-2009-2334

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not require administrative authentication to access the configuration of a plugin, which allows remote attackers to specify a configuration file in the page parameter to obtain sensitive information or modify this file, as demonstrated by the (1) collapsing-archives/options.txt, (2) akismet/readme.txt, (3) related-ways-to-take-action/options.php, (4) wp-security-scan/securityscan.php, and (5) wp-ids/ids-admin.php files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-9110 webapps php verified

Core Security · 2009-07-10

WordPress Core / MU / Plugins - '/admin.php' Privileges Unchecked / Multiple Information Disclosures

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.8.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.8.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.8.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.8.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.8.3-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2334

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.