CVE-2009-2334

no score yetEPSS 6.3%

wordpress: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2009-07-10
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wordpress:wordpress
wordpress:wordpress_mu

References

http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?action=view&type=advisory&name=WordPress_Privileges_Unchecked
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022528
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9110

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