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Fencer Vulns
high 8.5

CVE-2008-5695 in the critical feed json

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…

published 2008-12-19 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5666

cvss
8.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.0%
EPSS 12.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress wordpress_mu 1.3.2
  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5695

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-5066)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-5066 WordPress MU < 1.3.2 - 'active_plugins' Code Execution webapps, 2008-02-05
  • buayacorp.com http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • buayacorp.com http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.