CVE-2009-2334 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-2334

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

wordpress, wordpress mu
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.6.2, 0.6.2.1, 0.7, 0.71, 0.71-gold, 0.72, 0.711, 1.0, 1.0-platinum, 1.0.1, 1.0.1-miles, 1.0.2, 1.0.2-blakey, 1.2, 1.2-delta, 1.2-mingus, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5-strayhorn, 1.5.1, 1.5.1.1, 1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.10_rc1, 2.0.10_rc2, 2.0.11, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.3_rc1, 2.1.3_rc2, 2.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2_revision5002, 2.2_revision5003, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.6.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5a, 1.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 2.6.2

Timeline

Official Publish: July 10th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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