CVE-2009-2854: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.8.2

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