National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2146

Overview

wp-includes/vars.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 does not properly extract the current path from the PATH_INFO ($PHP_SELF), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4748

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4748

External Source: XF

Name: wordpress-vars-security-bypass(42379)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42379

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.2.2&old=6063&new_path=tags%2F2.2.3&new=6063#file10

Hyperlink:http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F2.2.2&old=6063&new_path=tags%2F2.2.3&new=6063#file10

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6029

Hyperlink:http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6029

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45188

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45188