7.3

CVE-2009-2854: wordpress

CVSS: 7.3v3.1HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2009-2854
Published 18-08-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-2854 is a high (CVSS 7.3) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 2.8.3.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.3/10
010
High · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
2.30%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

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 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/.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

83%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 2.28% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.30%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress≤ 2.8.2 (fixed in 2.8.3)
  • wordpress≤ 2.8.2
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 2.8.3-1

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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