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DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2334

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2334 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not require administrative authentication to access the configuration of a plugin, which allows remote attackers to specify a configuration file in the page parameter to obtain sensitive information or modify this file, as demonstrated by the (1) collapsing-archives/options.txt, (2) akismet/readme.txt, (3) related-ways-to-take-action/options.php, (4) wp-security-scan/securityscan.php, and (5) wp-ids/ids-admin.php files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial of service.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11wordpress0, 0, 0
Debian:12wordpress0, 0, 0
Debian:14wordpress0
Debian:13wordpress0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jul 10, 2009 CVE Published
  • May 7, 2026 CVE Updated
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