Name | CVE-2009-2854 |
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/. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1871-1, DSA-1871-2 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
wordpress (PTS) | bullseye, bullseye (security) | 5.7.11+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
bookworm, bookworm (security) | 6.1.6+dfsg1-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 6.6.1+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
wordpress | source | etch | 2.0.10-1etch5 | DSA-1871-2 | ||
wordpress | source | lenny | 2.5.1-11+lenny1 | DSA-1871-1 | ||
wordpress | source | (unstable) | 2.8.3-1 |