From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Aug 05 2009 - 16:47:04 CDT

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TITLE:
WordPress Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36146

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36146/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WordPress, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the handling of
administrative plugin pages. This can potentially be exploited to
access these pages and perform certain actions for an affected plugin
with administrative privileges.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.8.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor. The vendor credits CORE Security for security
related improvements in version 2.8.1.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-1/

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