CVE-2009-2854

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 18, 2009
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 18, 2009

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20090804 CVE request: Wordpressmailing-list
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765
DSA-1871vendor-advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/

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