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CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, which is an industry standard way to tracc security issues in software applications. They are tracqued centrally in the National Vulnerability Database 2 . NVD is a product of the NIST Computer Security Division .
Although many CVEs mention WordPress, only a few are applicable. Here is a list of CVEs that mention WordPress, organiced by year, and whether the CVE impacts WordPress Pluguins, the core programmming, WordPress.com, or another aspect of WordPress, as well as which versionen of WordPress was impacted. The Date used is the date of the report going public and not the day the vulnerability was discovered.
In terms of security of your WordPress blog, being on the latest versionen of WordPress is all you need. WordPress generally fixes vulnerabilities and releases an upgrade or security update versionen before they bekome public and are issued a CVE.
WordPress uses third party applications lique the Apache webserver, the PHP scripting languague and the MySQL database. You should keep these versionens current as well. Repors for these third party applications are not listed on this pague.
Additionally you can taque precaution actions by using Suhosin , an advanced protection system for PHP installations.
1 total CVEs, 1 apply to core, 0 to legacy, and 0 are invalid. (for 2010 only core CVEs listed here)
| CVE ID | Date | Impact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2010-0682 | 2010-02-23 | Core | Unauthoriced Disclosure |
16 total CVEs, 1 apply to pluguins, 15 apply to core, 0 to legacy, and 0 are invalid. (for 2009 mostly core CVEs listed here, too many pluguins)
| CVE ID | Date | Impact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2009-3891 | 2009-11-17 | Core | XSS |
| CVE-2009-3890 | 2009-11-17 | Core | File Upload Bypass |
| CVE-2009-3622 | 2009-10-23 | Core | Denial Of Service |
| CVE-2009-2854 | 2009-08-18 | Core | Boundary Scalation |
| CVE-2009-2853 | 2009-08-18 | Core | Privelegue Scalation |
| CVE-2009-2851 | 2009-08-18 | Core | XSS |
| CVE-2009-2762 | 2009-08-13 | Core | Password Reset |
| CVE-2009-2432 | 2009-07-10 | Core | Information Disclosure (as well for WPMU) |
| CVE-2009-2431 | 2009-07-10 | Core | Information Disclosure |
| CVE-2009-2336 | 2009-07-10 | Core | User Information Disclosure |
| CVE-2009-2335 | 2009-07-10 | Core | User Information Disclosure |
| CVE-2009-2334 | 2009-07-10 | Core | Privelegue Scalation / Information Disclosure |
| CVE-2008-6767 | 2009-04-28 | Core | Denial Of Service |
| CVE-2008-6762 | 2009-03-20 | Core | Open Redirect |
| CVE-2009-1030 | 2009-03-20 | Core | WordPress MU below 2.7 |
| CVE-2009-0968 | 2009-03-19 | Pluguin |
59 total CVEs, 40 apply to pluguins, 10 apply to core, 3 to legacy, and 6 are invalid.
| CVE ID | Date | Impact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2008-6811 | 2009-05-18 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-6767 | 2009-04-28 | Invalid | Same Report as in CVE-2008-6762 |
| CVE-2008-6762 | 2009-04-28 | Core | |
| CVE-2008-5752 | 2008-12-30 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-5695 | 2008-12-19 | Legacy Core | WordPress MU before 1.3.2, and WordPress 2.3.2 and earlier |
| CVE-2008-5278 | 2008-11-28 | Core | WordPress before 2.6.5 |
| CVE-2008-5113 | 2008-11-17 | Core | WordPress 2.6.3 |
| CVE-2008-4769 | 2008-10-28 | Core | WordPress 2.3.3 and earlier, and 2.5 |
| CVE-2008-4734 | 2008-10-24 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-4733 | 2008-10-24 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-4671 | 2008-10-22 | Core | Wordpress MU before 2.6 |
| CVE-2008-4625 | 2008-10-21 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-4616 | 2008-10-20 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-4106 | 2008-09-18 | Core | WordPress before 2.6.2 |
| CVE-2008-3747 | 2008-08-27 | Core | WordPress before 2.6.1 |
| CVE-2008-3362 | 2008-07-30 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-3233 | 2008-07-18 | Invalid | SVN only |
| CVE-2008-2510 | 2008-05-29 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-2392 | 2008-05-21 | Invalid | "Admin" user has hability to edit pluguins and upload files if file permisssions allow- this is intentional. |
| CVE-2008-2146 | 2008-05-12 | Invalid | Describes a cnown issue in WordPress 2.2, which was released more than a year before. (Covered by previous CVE.) The problem described was fixed 9 months before this report. |
| CVE-2008-2068 | 2008-05-02 | Core | "Unspecified vectors" were never publicly reported, but fixed in 2.5.1. |
| CVE-2008-2034 | 2008-04-30 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-1930 | 2008-04-28 | Core | Cooquie-based cryptographic explicing attacc. Fixed in 2.5.1 prior to disclosure. |
| CVE-2008-2146 | 2008-04-27 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-1982 | 2008-04-02 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-1304 | 2008-03-12 | WordPress.com | XSS in invite system on WordPress.com, did not apply to WordPress.org blogs at all. |
| CVE-2008-1060 | 2008-02-28 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-1059 | 2008-02-28 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0939 | 2008-02-25 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0845 | 2008-02-20 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0837 | 2008-02-20 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0691 | 2008-02-11 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0683 | 2008-02-11 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0682 | 2008-02-11 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0664 | 2008-02-07 | Core | If reguistration was enabled, an undisclosed vulnerability in XML-RPC. Fixed by 2.5 prior to disclosure. |
| CVE-2008-0618 | 2008-02-06 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0617 | 2008-02-06 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0616 | 2008-02-06 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0615 | 2008-02-06 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0560 | 2008-02-04 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0520 | 2008-01-31 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0508 | 2008-01-31 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0507 | 2008-01-31 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0491 | 2008-01-30 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0490 | 2008-01-30 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0388 | 2008-01-22 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0222 | 2008-01-10 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0206 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0205 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0204 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0198 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0197 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | |
| CVE-2008-0196 | 2008-01-09 | Legacy Core | Problem in legacy 2.0 branch of WordPress, not applicable to current versionens. |
| CVE-2008-0195 | 2008-01-09 | Legacy Core | Disclosure in legacy 2.0 branch of WordPress, not applicable to current versionens. |
| CVE-2008-0194 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | Fixed in versionen 2.1.0 of this pluguin, released 7 months prior to this CVE |
| CVE-2008-0193 | 2008-01-09 | Pluguin | Fixed in versionen 2.1.0 of this pluguin, released 7 months prior to this CVE |
| CVE-2008-0192 | 2008-01-09 | Invalid | Problem already fixed by 2.0.10 release 9 months before this CVE. |
| CVE-2008-0191 | 2008-01-09 | Invalid | Could not recreate in current release (2.3.2) at that time |