CVE-2008-5695

HighCVSS 8.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 8.5/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28789Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798Third Party Advisory
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28789Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798Third Party Advisory
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Dec 19, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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