CVE-2008-2146 (GCVE-0-2008-2146)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-12 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
wp-includes/vars.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 does not properly extract the current path from the PATH_INFO ($PHP_SELF), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://osvdb.org/45188 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4748 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6029 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
Date Public
2008-04-29 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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