CVE-2009-2854: 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…

PriorityP430medium6.4CVSS 2.0

AVNACLAuNCPIPAN

EPSS

2.28%

81.3th percentile

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/.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 2.8.3-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 2.8.3-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 2.8.2	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.8.3-1	2.8.3-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.8.3-1	2.8.3-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.8.3-1	2.8.3-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.8.3-1	2.8.3-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.4MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

osv6.4MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.4MEDIUM

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