VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-2854

MEDIUM 6.4EPSS 2.30%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.

CVSS 2.0: 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS: 2.30% probability · 83th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-264
Affected: wordpress/wordpress
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 2.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765Vendor Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766Vendor Advisory
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11765Vendor Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11766Vendor Advisory
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.