CVE-2008-5113: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress 2.6.3 relies on the REQUEST superglobal array in certain dangerous situations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct delayed and persistent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via crafted cookies, as demonstrated by attacks that (1) delete user accounts or (2) cause a denial of service (loss of application access). NOTE: this issue relies on the presence of an independent vulnerability that allows cookie injection.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: version 2.6.3 only

Published 2008-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.