CVE-2008-5695

CVSS V2 High 8.5 CVSS V3 None

Description

wp-admin/options.php in WordPress MU before 1.3.2, and WordPress 2.3.2 and earlier, does not properly validate requests to update an option, which allows remote authenticated users with manage_options and upload_files capabilities to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP script and adding this script's pathname to active_plugins.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-5695

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2008-12-19T18:30:00

Last Modified Date
2021-04-21T14:43:37

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-20	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress::::::::	1	OR		2.3.2
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress_mu::::::::	1	OR		1.3.2

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
8.5

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
6.8

Impact Score
10

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt	Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28789	Third Party Advisory
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html	Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066	Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5695
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5695

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 07:15:01				Added to TrackCVE