CVE-2008-4769

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the get_category_template function in wp-includes/theme.php in WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier, and 2.5, allows remote attackers to include and possibly execute arbitrary PHP files via the cat parameter in index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.3.3; 0.6.2, 0.6.2-beta_2, 0.6.2.1, 0.6.2.1-beta_2, 0.7, 0.71 (+61)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29949
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.juniper.fi/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28845.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28845
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41920
http://secunia.com/advisories/29949
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.juniper.fi/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28845.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28845
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41920

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