CVE-2009-2334: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 does not require administrative authentication to access the configuration of a plugin, which allows remote attackers to specify a configuration file in the page parameter to obtain sensitive information or modify this file, as demonstrated by the (1) collapsing-archives/options.txt, (2) akismet/readme.txt, (3) related-ways-to-take-action/options.php, (4) wp-security-scan/securityscan.php, and (5) wp-ids/ids-admin.php files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) and denial of service.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.7.1; version 0.6.2 only; version 0.6.2.1 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.71 only; version 0.71-gold only; …
• WordPress WordPress Mu: up to and including 2.7; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; …

Published 2009-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.