CVE-2009-2335

60Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 85%

from disclosure to weapon771 days

Published on NVDJul 10

1st PoC+771d

exploitation probability

85%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 exhibit different behavior for a failed login attempt depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames. NOTE: the vendor reportedly disputes the significance of this issue, indicating that the behavior exists for "user convenience."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/17702unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110unverified

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References

http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?action=view&type=advisory&name=WordPress_Privileges_Unchecked http://securitytracker.com/id?1022528 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00597.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00608.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00632.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00676.html http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110 http://www.osvdb.org/55713 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504795/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35581 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1833