CVE-2009-2853 Information

Description

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php (2) edit-category-form.php (3) edit-form-advanced.php (4) edit-form-comment.php (5) edit-link-category-form.php (6) edit-link-form.php (7) edit-page-form.php and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

Reference

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11768 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11769 http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/ http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/5