Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-2334

Title: Wordpress Wordpress Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-2334

CWE Category CWE-287
Published Date Jul 10, 2009
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
12.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-2334: 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.

Impacted Vendors

W
wordpress 2

Reference Links

http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?action=view&type=advisory&name=WordPress_Privileges_Unchecked http://securitytracker.com/id?1022528 http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/ http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110 http://www.osvdb.org/55712 http://www.osvdb.org/55715 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504795/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35584 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1833 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00597.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00608.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00632.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00676.html http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?action=view&type=advisory&name=WordPress_Privileges_Unchecked http://securitytracker.com/id?1022528 http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/ http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110 http://www.osvdb.org/55712 http://www.osvdb.org/55715 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504795/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35584 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1833 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00597.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00608.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00632.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00676.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-2334 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.