PT-2009-5212

CVE-2009-2854

Published

2009-08-18

Updated

2017-11-22

Description by

CVSS 2.0

6.4

Medium

MetricsAV: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.

Exploitability

Fix

Researchers

Ryan

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Related identifiers

CVE-2009-2854

DSA-1871-1