CVE-2010-5106

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

The XML-RPC remote publishing interface in xmlrpc.php in WordPress before 3.0.3 does not properly check capabilities, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and publish, edit, or delete posts, by leveraging the Author or Contributor role.

The XML-RPC remote publishing interface in xmlrpc.php in WordPress before 3.0.3 does not properly check capabilities, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and publish, edit, or delete posts, by leveraging the Author or Contributor role.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-09-14 19:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-09-17 04:00:00

Affected Software

WordPress 0.71

0.71

WordPress 1.0

1.0

WordPress 1.0.1

1.0.1

WordPress 1.0.2

1.0.2

WordPress 1.1.1

1.1.1

WordPress 1.2

1.2

WordPress 1.2.1

1.2.1

WordPress 1.2.2

1.2.2

WordPress 1.2.3

1.2.3

WordPress 1.2.4

1.2.4

WordPress 1.2.5

1.2.5

WordPress 1.2.5:a

1.2.5

WordPress 1.3

1.3

WordPress 1.3.2

1.3.2

WordPress 1.3.3

1.3.3

WordPress 1.5

1.5

WordPress 1.5.1

1.5.1

WordPress 1.5.1.1

1.5.1.1

WordPress 1.5.1.2

1.5.1.2

WordPress 1.5.1.3

1.5.1.3

WordPress 1.5.2

1.5.2

WordPress 2.0

2.0

WordPress 2.0.1

2.0.1

WordPress 2.0.2

2.0.2

WordPress 2.0.4

2.0.4

WordPress 2.0.5

2.0.5

WordPress 2.0.6

2.0.6

WordPress 2.0.7

2.0.7

WordPress 2.0.8

2.0.8

WordPress 2.0.9

2.0.9

WordPress 2.0.10

2.0.10

WordPress 2.0.11

2.0.11

WordPress 2.1

2.1

WordPress 2.1.1

2.1.1

WordPress 2.1.2

2.1.2

WordPress 2.1.3

2.1.3

WordPress 2.2

2.2

WordPress 2.2.1

2.2.1

WordPress 2.2.2

2.2.2

WordPress 2.2.3

2.2.3

WordPress 2.3

2.3

WordPress 2.3.1

2.3.1

WordPress 2.3.2

2.3.2

WordPress 2.3.3

2.3.3

WordPress 2.5

2.5

WordPress 2.5.1

2.5.1

WordPress 2.6

2.6

WordPress 2.6.1

2.6.1

WordPress 2.6.2

2.6.2

WordPress 2.6.3

2.6.3

WordPress 2.6.5

2.6.5

WordPress 2.7

2.7

WordPress 2.7.1

2.7.1

WordPress 2.8

2.8

WordPress 2.8.1

2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.2

2.8.2

WordPress 2.8.3

2.8.3

WordPress 2.8.4

2.8.4

WordPress 2.8.4:a

2.8.4

WordPress 2.8.5

2.8.5

WordPress 2.8.5.1

2.8.5.1

WordPress 2.8.5.2

2.8.5.2

WordPress 2.8.6

2.8.6

WordPress 2.9

2.9

WordPress 2.9.1

2.9.1

WordPress 2.9.1.1

2.9.1.1

WordPress 2.9.2

2.9.2

WordPress 3.0

3.0

WordPress 3.0.1

3.0.1

WordPress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.3

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16803

[oss-security] 20120914 Re: CVE-request: WordPress insufficient permissions verification on XMLRPC interface

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