CVE-2008-5695
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 8.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2008-12-19
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
References
- http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28789
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066
