$ cve CVE-2009-2334 JSON

CVE-2009-2334 EXPLOIT

4.9

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 6.3% (pctl 93)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not require administrative authentication to access the configuration of a plugin, which allows remote attackers to specify a configuration file in the page parameter to obtain sensitive information or modify this file, as demonstrated by the (1) collapsing-archives/options.txt, (2) akismet/readme.txt, (3) related-ways-to-take-action/options.php, (4) wp-security-scan/securityscan.php, and (5) wp-ids/ids-admin.php files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial of service.

Scoring

CVSS	4.9 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS	6.26% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-287
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2009-07-10
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
wordpress	wordpress
wordpress	wordpress mu

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	WordPress Core / MU / Plugins - '/admin.php' Privileges Unchecked / Multiple Information Disclosures	2009-07-10

References

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