CVE-2012-4422

Severity

35%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

48%

wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin, which might allow remote authenticated users to make unintended plugin changes by leveraging the Administrator role.

wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin, which might allow remote authenticated users to make unintended plugin changes by leveraging the Administrator role.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/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 Beta 1

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#file42

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

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