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CVE-2009-1085

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Piwik 0.2.32 and earlier stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the API key and other sensitive information via a direct request for misc/cron/archive.sh.

Affected products

• matomoteam Matomo Analytics – Powerful, Privacy-First Insights for WordPress: through 0.2.32; 0.2.25, 0.2.26, 0.2.27, 0.2.28, 0.2.29, 0.2.30 (+1)

References

• http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/599
• http://marco-ziesing.de/archives/35-Schluesselloch-in-Piwik.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/23/2
• http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/599
• http://marco-ziesing.de/archives/35-Schluesselloch-in-Piwik.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/23/2

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