National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4769

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the get_category_template function in wp-includes/theme.php in WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier, and 2.5, allows remote attackers to include and possibly execute arbitrary PHP files via the cat parameter in index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: wordpress-cat-directory-traversal(41920)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41920

External Source: BID

Name: 28845

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28845

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.juniper.fi/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28845.html

Hyperlink:http://www.juniper.fi/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln28845.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1871

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871

External Source: MISC

Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586

Hyperlink:http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29949

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29949