CVE-2012-4421

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

The create_post function in wp-includes/class-wp-atom-server.php in WordPress before 3.4.2 does not perform a capability check, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and publish new posts by leveraging the Contributor role and using the Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) feature.

The create_post function in wp-includes/class-wp-atom-server.php in WordPress before 3.4.2 does not perform a capability check, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and publish new posts by leveraging the Contributor role and using the Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) feature.

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 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 3.0.2

3.0.2

WordPress 3.0.3

3.0.3

WordPress 3.0.4

3.0.4

WordPress 3.0.5

3.0.5

WordPress 3.0.6

3.0.6

WordPress 3.1

3.1

WordPress 3.1.1

3.1.1

WordPress 3.1.2

3.1.2

WordPress 3.1.3

3.1.3

WordPress 3.1.4

3.1.4

WordPress 3.2

3.2

WordPress 3.2.1

3.2.1

WordPress 3.3

3.3

WordPress 3.3.1

3.3.1

WordPress 3.3.2

3.3.2

WordPress 3.3.3

3.3.3

WordPress 3.4.0

3.4.0

WordPress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2

[oss-security] 20120913 Re: CVEs for wordpress 3.4.2 release

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