CVE-2009-2853

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

Affected products

WordPress: 0.71, 0.71-beta, 0.71-beta_3, 0.72, 0.72-beta_1, 0.72-beta_2 (+51)

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11768
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11769
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11768
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11769
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5

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