CVE-2009-2853: WordPress

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: version 0.71 only; version 0.72 only; version 0.711 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.2 only; …

Published 2009-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.