CVE-2008-5695

EPSS 12.0%

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 http://secunia.com/advisories/28789 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066 http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633