CVE-2008-2146

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2146
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-12 20:20:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionwp-includes/vars.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 does not properly extract the current path from the PATH_INFO ($PHP_SELF), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.7 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.71 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.711 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.3.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.4 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5-strayhorn All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.6 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10_rc1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10_rc2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.11 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.4 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.5 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.6 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.7 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.8 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.9 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3_rc1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3_rc2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2_revision5002 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2_revision5003 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
osvdb.org/45188 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
#4748 (Unprivileged users can perform some actions on pages they aren't allowed to access) - WordPress Trac - Trac af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.wordpress.org Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
403 Forbidden af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.wordpress.org Exploit
Changeset 6029 - WordPress Trac - Trac af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.wordpress.org Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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