CVE-2008-0664

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The XML-RPC implementation (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress before 2.3.3, when registration is enabled, allows remote attackers to edit posts of other blog users via unknown vectors.

Affected products

WordPress: 0.7, 0.71, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1 (+32)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28823
http://secunia.com/advisories/28920
http://secunia.com/advisories/30960
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1601
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27669
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019316
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/02/02/wordpress-232-exploit-confirmed/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0448
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431547
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00349.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00416.html

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