CVE-2009-2762

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 20%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 13

1st PoCSep 7

exploitation probability

20%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

4 public exploit(s)

wp-login.php in WordPress 2.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to force a password reset for the first user in the database, possibly the administrator, via a key[] array variable in a resetpass (aka rp) action, which bypasses a check that assumes that $key is not an array.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 4

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9410unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/6421unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/6397unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9410unverified

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0114.html http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11798 http://secunia.com/advisories/36237 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52382 http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9410 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36014 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022707