CVE-2008-5695
HIGH · CVSS 8.5EPSS 12.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 12.0% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5666)
- Published
- December 19, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5666 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress mu
References
- http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28789(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066(Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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