CVE-2009-2762
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 19.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB3 entries
- WordPress Core 2.8.3 - Remote Admin Reset Password (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9410webapps, phppublished 11 Aug 2009Verified
- WordPress Core 2.6.1 - Admin Takeover (SQL Column Truncation) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6421webapps, phppublished 10 Sept 2008Verified
- WordPress Core 2.6.1 - SQL Column Truncation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6397webapps, phppublished 7 Sept 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9410 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 19.6% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11798 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 9410 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- wordpress-wplogin-security-bypass(52382) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20090810 WordPress <= 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 36014 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1022707 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 36237 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-2752 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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