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http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 CVE-2008-5695
WordPress MU < 1.3.2 - 'active_plugins' Code Execution
Record summary
CVE-2008-5695 has a selected CVSS score of 8.5; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBWordPress MU < 1.3.2 - 'active_plugins' Code ExecutionExploitDB exploitby Alexander ConchaNot analyzed1 file
References
828789Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28789 4798Third-party advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798 buayacorp.com
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html buayacorp.com
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt 27633vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5695 5066exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066