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Improper Authentication Affecting wordpress package, versions <2.8.3-1

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    18.27% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363078
  • published 10 Jul 2009
  • disclosed 10 Jul 2009
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Introduced: 10 Jul 2009

CVE-2009-2334 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-287 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 2.8.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

4.6 medium