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CVE-2009-2853: wordpress

CVSS: 10.0v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2009-2853
Published 18-08-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-2853 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 4.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded. Fixed in 2.8.3.

Overall risk
90/100
0100
Critical · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
10.0/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.71%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-1871-1DSA-1871-2

Timeline

  1. 18-08-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.71%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.71% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.71%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (core.trac.wordpress.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (core.trac.wordpress.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress≤ 2.8.2 (fixed in 2.8.3)
  • wordpressEOL0.71 | 0.71:beta | 0.71:beta_3 | 0.72 | 0.72:beta_1 | 0.72:beta_2 | 0.72:rc1 | 0.711 | 1.0 | 1.0.1:miles | 1.0.1:rc1 | 1.2 | 1.2:beta | 1.2:rc1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.5 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.1.3 | 1.5.2 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5:ronan | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.1:ella | 2.1.1 | 2.1.1:dangerous | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3:beta3 | 2.3:rc1 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.1:rc1 | 2.3.2 | 2.5 | 2.5.1 | 2.6 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.3 | 2.7:coltrane | 2.7.1 | 2.8 | 2.8.1 | 2.8.2
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 2.8.3-1

2 vendors · 3 products

References

7 links