CVE-2008-5695 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7534&page&replies=1 http://secunia.com/advisories/28789 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4798 http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wp-blog-option-overwrite.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27633 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5066