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CVE-2008-5695

Published: Dec 19, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

wp-admin/options.php in WordPress MU before 1.3.2, and WordPress 2.3.2 and earlier, does not properly validate requests to update an option, which allows remote authenticated users with manage_options and upload_files capabilities to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP script and adding this script's pathname to active_plugins.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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exploit

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http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt

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third-party-advisory

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http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html

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http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1

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