CVE-2011-5270

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-21 01:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-01-21 17:31:00

Affected Software

WordPress 3.0

3.0

WordPress 3.0.1

3.0.1

WordPress 3.0.2

3.0.2

WordPress 3.0.3

3.0.3

WordPress 3.0.4

3.0.4

WordPress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6

Vendor Advisory

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710

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