{"cve":"CVE-2008-5695","nvd":{"published":"2008-12-19T18:30:00.467","modified":"2026-06-16T23:00:49.353","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-20"],"references":["http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1","http://secunia.com/advisories/28789","http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798","http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html","http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt"],"products":["wordpress:wordpress","wordpress:wordpress_mu"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:53:23.791937413+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2008-5695","score":0.12008,"percentile":0.96131,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}