CVE-2009-2854

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.8.2

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766
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/11765
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766
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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