medium
4.9
CWE
287 79
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2009-2334: XSS

First published: Fri Jul 10 2009(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
WordPress=2.0.11
WordPress=1.2-mingus
WordPress=2.3.1-rc1
WordPress=2.0
WordPress=2.1.1
WordPress=2.1.3_rc2
WordPress=2.2.3
WordPress=2.0.2
Wordpress=1.5.1
WordPress=1.2-beta
Wordpress=1.3.3
WordPress=2.1
WordPress=2.1-alpha_3
WordPress=2.0.10_rc1
WordPress=1.5-strayhorn
WordPress=1.2-delta
WordPress=2.0.6
WordPress=1.0-rc2
WordPress=2.0.1
WordPress=2.0.4
WordPress=1.3.1
Wordpress=2.6.3
Wordpress=2.6
Wordpress=1.2.5a
WordPress=0.6.2.1-beta_2
WordPress=0.71-gold
Wordpress=1.2.3
Wordpress=2.6.1
WordPress=2.2_revision5003
WordPress=0.711
WordPress=0.6.2.1
WordPress=1.4
WordPress=2.2
WordPress=1.2.1
WordPress=0.7
WordPress=2.1.3
WordPress=0.72-beta2
WordPress=2.0.7
Wordpress=1.3.2
WordPress=2.2.0
WordPress=2.1.2
WordPress=0.71
WordPress=2.6.3
WordPress=1.0-rc4
WordPress=2.0.5
WordPress=1.0-rc3
Wordpress=1.2
WordPress=2.6.5
WordPress=0.6.2
WordPress=2.2.2
WordPress=2.3.3
WordPress=1.5.1.1
WordPress=2.0.9
Wordpress=1.1
Wordpress=1.2.2
WordPress=2.2.1
Wordpress=1.2.4-rc1
WordPress=1.5.2
Wordpress=1.3
WordPress=1.6
WordPress=1.0.1
Wordpress=1.3.1
WordPress=2.0.10_rc2
WordPress=0.72
WordPress=1.0.2-blakey
WordPress=2.3.1
WordPress=1.0.2
WordPress=2.5.1
WordPress=1.0-rc1
WordPress=2.0.3
WordPress=2.6.1
WordPress=1.5.1.2
WordPress=0.72-rc1
WordPress=1.2
WordPress=2.3-beta3
WordPress=2.5
WordPress=2.1.3_rc1
WordPress=1.0-platinum
Wordpress=1.1.1
WordPress<=2.7.1
WordPress=1.2.2
Wordpress=2.6.2
WordPress=2.0.10
WordPress=1.0.1-miles
WordPress=1.0
Wordpress=1.5-rc1
Wordpress=1.2.1
WordPress=1.5
Wordpress=2.6.5
WordPress=1.5.1
WordPress=0.6.2-beta_2
WordPress=1.5.1.3
WordPress=2.3-rc1
Wordpress<=2.7
WordPress=2.3.2
WordPress=0.72-beta1
WordPress=2.6
Wordpress=1.2.4
WordPress=2.2_revision5002
WordPress=2.0.8
WordPress=2.3

Remedy

http://www.osvdb.org/55712

Remedy

http://www.osvdb.org/55715

Remedy

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35584

Remedy

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1833

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