29949Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29949 CVE-2008-4769
WordPress Core 2.3.3 - 'cat' Directory Traversal
Record summary
CVE-2008-4769 has a selected CVSS score of 9.3; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the get_category_template function in wp-includes/theme.php in WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier, and 2.5, allows remote attackers to include and possibly execute arbitrary PHP files via the cat parameter in index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBWordPress Core 2.3.3 - 'cat' Directory TraversalExploitDB exploitby Gerendi Sandor AttilaNot analyzed1 file
References
7trac.wordpress.org
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586 DSA-1871Vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 juniper.fi
http://www.juniper.fi/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28845.html 28845vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28845 wordpress-cat-directory-traversal(41920)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41920 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4769