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) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

CVSS v2.0

10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

4.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 91th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2009-08-18

Updated

2024-08-07

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2009/CVE-2009-2853-wordpress-9a…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2009-2852
• CVE-2009-2854
• CVE-2009-2851
• CVE-2009-2881
• CVE-2009-2847
• CVE-2009-2882