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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

12.0% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 4798 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 27633 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 5066 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 28789 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-5695](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-5695.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-5695)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 11:04 UTC.