PoC Index

CVE-2009-2334

MEDIUM 4.9EPSS 6.3%

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.

CVSS v2.0
4.9 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS
6.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 93th percentile
Nuclei
medium
Published
2009-07-10
Updated
2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

Nuclei templates (1)

ExploitDB entries (1)

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