CVE-2008-0508

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in deans_permalinks_migration.php in the Dean's Permalinks Migration 1.0 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to modify the oldstructure (aka dean_pm_config[oldstructure]) configuration setting as administrators via the old_struct parameter in a deans_permalinks_migration.php action to wp-admin/options-general.php, as demonstrated by placing an XSS sequence in this setting.

Affected products

WordPress Permalinks Migration Plugin: 1.0

References

http://g30rg3x.com/wp-files/dpm_11gx.zip
http://g30rg3x.com/xsrf-bajo-deans-permalinks-migration-10
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0801-advisories/deans-xsrf.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/28593
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3595
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486840/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0281
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39845
http://g30rg3x.com/wp-files/dpm_11gx.zip
http://g30rg3x.com/xsrf-bajo-deans-permalinks-migration-10
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0801-advisories/deans-xsrf.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/28593

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