Candidate: CVE-2009-2853 PublicDate: 2009-08-18 21:00:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2853 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/. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: Priority: medium Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_wordpress: upstream_wordpress: released (2.8.3) dapper_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life) hardy_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life) intrepid_wordpress: needs-triage (reached end-of-life) jaunty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life) karmic_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1) lucid_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1) maverick_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1) natty_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1) oneiric_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1) devel_wordpress: not-affected (2.8.3-2ubuntu1)