CVE-2009-2853
Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5)
02 Description
Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-08-18 20:41Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 06:07Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-08-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6e4014f3e90b7292d73f63421a4bfed3c774043207f834e98e375c6ad9258e9b
05 Affected products
06 References
- core.trac.wordpress.orghttp://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11768
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20090804 CVE request: Wordpresshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5
- www.debian.orgDSA-1871http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
- core.trac.wordpress.orghttp://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11769
- wordpress.orghttp://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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